[SOLVED] A question before I partition for Windows 7...............

[389poncho]

Hello,
My sister bought her daughter a new PC and gave me her older Macbook 5,1 OS X, 10.9.5 Mavericks. This was going to be my wife's to use in bed [disabled]. I dumped all the personal files as far as I could. But when I try to install my wife's Firefox, email accounts, change a major setting, etc, I get roadblocked because it is all still linked to my niece with so many separate accounts, programs & passwords. Frustrating! My sister's and niece's ownership and licensing is so deeply ingrained in this thing that it's not worth all this aggravation.

Being a Windows person anyway, I am going to partition this MacBook and install Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. My question is: After I do this with our own product key, will the Windows partition be totally separate from Apple and officially belong to us?

Many thanks to you,
Mike

 

[azaran]

You still need to have bootcamp loaded from the Mac side to do a dual boot with Windows 7. A better option would be to reinstall the OS and wipe out any and all traces to your sister/niece. If your sister gave you the laptop, then hopefully she gave you the install media. If not you should still be able to do a reinstall from within the computer. Check out this article
http://www.howtogeek.com/186860/how-to-reinstall-os-x-on-your-mac-wipe-your-drive-and-create-usb-installation-media/

After you reinstall, then I'd see if you want to run a dual boot OS. If you do, download BootCamp and set it up through there to run OSX and Win7 off the laptop. As long as the CD key you're using isn't in use on another computer (retail copy) or hasn't been installed at all (OEM copy) then you shouldn't run in to any issue. If it has been loaded on another computer you may run in to licensing issues.

 

[JustSomeJoe]

Ask for the Admin password, whatever you do (short of re-installing OS X) will require it.

 

[389poncho]

You still need to have bootcamp loaded from the Mac side to do a dual boot with Windows 7. A better option would be to reinstall the OS and wipe out any and all traces to your sister/niece. If your sister gave you the laptop, then hopefully she gave you the install media. If not you should still be able to do a reinstall from within the computer. Check out this article
http://www.howtogeek.com/186860/how-to-reinstall-os-x-on-your-mac-wipe-your-drive-and-create-usb-installation-media/

After you reinstall, then I'd see if you want to run a dual boot OS. If you do, download BootCamp and set it up through there to run OSX and Win7 off the laptop. As long as the CD key you're using isn't in use on another computer (retail copy) or hasn't been installed at all (OEM copy) then you shouldn't run in to any issue. If it has been loaded on another computer you may run in to licensing issues.

azaran,
Thank you so much for all your helpfulness. I'll start getting into it then, in a day or two.
T'care,
Mike

 

[389poncho]

Ask for the Admin password, whatever you do (short of re-installing OS X) will require it.

J S J,
Thank you for your input. I appreciate it.
T'care,
Mike

 

[azaran]

You still need to have bootcamp loaded from the Mac side to do a dual boot with Windows 7. A better option would be to reinstall the OS and wipe out any and all traces to your sister/niece. If your sister gave you the laptop, then hopefully she gave you the install media. If not you should still be able to do a reinstall from within the computer. Check out this article
http://www.howtogeek.com/186860/how-to-reinstall-os-x-on-your-mac-wipe-your-drive-and-create-usb-installation-media/

After you reinstall, then I'd see if you want to run a dual boot OS. If you do, download BootCamp and set it up through there to run OSX and Win7 off the laptop. As long as the CD key you're using isn't in use on another computer (retail copy) or hasn't been installed at all (OEM copy) then you shouldn't run in to any issue. If it has been loaded on another computer you may run in to licensing issues.

azaran,
Thank you so much for all your helpfulness. I'll start getting into it then, in a day or two.
T'care,
Mike

Good luck Mike!