Hi,
This is my first time posting on Tom's Hardware; it's a very good forum where I have found many answers to my questions before, so hopefully someone can help me out here.
It's a long story so I'll try to shorten it best I can, but I want to make sure I am understood correctly, so you'll have to bear with me here. If you are able to solve this without knowing details, feel free to skip below for the question which I will separate.
Back in 2011 I bought myself a 2010 21.5" iMac running OSX Lion, second hand. I really enjoyed using Mac for applications such as iMovie and GarageBand, which is the main reason I bought it, however it wasn't living up to being able to run similar programs to the ones I knew so well on Windows. I tried my luck delving into the world of BootCamp, and was pretty successful with it, only a few problems that were easily sorted. However, I never took into account the partition size for Windows, and it ended up getting full up, until I discovered file compression (windows feature), that long story short, led to me to corrupting the hard drive of my mac. I lost everything on it, and ended up not being able to install a copy of OSX Lion that I had on a USB drive due to incorrect partition formatting for the mac, that I never worked out. I installed windows on it, and for two years it ended up sitting in the corner of my room acting as a file server. However; I'm missing using GarageBand and am getting to the point where I need it to help me with composition for my Music course at school, and I am need of installing OSX back onto it.
TLDR: So, what I'm basically trying to ask is if there is a way that I can partition my current windows hard drive, and use my copy of OSX on my USB pendrive (that I downloaded from the Mac App Store when it was functioning) to install onto a fresh partition.
Heads Up: I have backed up my iMac hard drive fully, and am prepared to wipe my iMac if need be.
This is my first time posting on Tom's Hardware; it's a very good forum where I have found many answers to my questions before, so hopefully someone can help me out here.
It's a long story so I'll try to shorten it best I can, but I want to make sure I am understood correctly, so you'll have to bear with me here. If you are able to solve this without knowing details, feel free to skip below for the question which I will separate.
Back in 2011 I bought myself a 2010 21.5" iMac running OSX Lion, second hand. I really enjoyed using Mac for applications such as iMovie and GarageBand, which is the main reason I bought it, however it wasn't living up to being able to run similar programs to the ones I knew so well on Windows. I tried my luck delving into the world of BootCamp, and was pretty successful with it, only a few problems that were easily sorted. However, I never took into account the partition size for Windows, and it ended up getting full up, until I discovered file compression (windows feature), that long story short, led to me to corrupting the hard drive of my mac. I lost everything on it, and ended up not being able to install a copy of OSX Lion that I had on a USB drive due to incorrect partition formatting for the mac, that I never worked out. I installed windows on it, and for two years it ended up sitting in the corner of my room acting as a file server. However; I'm missing using GarageBand and am getting to the point where I need it to help me with composition for my Music course at school, and I am need of installing OSX back onto it.
TLDR: So, what I'm basically trying to ask is if there is a way that I can partition my current windows hard drive, and use my copy of OSX on my USB pendrive (that I downloaded from the Mac App Store when it was functioning) to install onto a fresh partition.
Heads Up: I have backed up my iMac hard drive fully, and am prepared to wipe my iMac if need be.
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