How to reset MacOsX while keeping BootCamp?

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Published on 2012-12-15T16:23:06Z Indexed on 2012/12/19 5:05 UTC
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I have MacOsX 10.8.2 installed on my MacBook Pro and Windows 8 licenced on a BootCamp partition. I have messed up my MacOsx partition (problems while programming, .h files not found, old applications removed that still appears) and I wanna start back from a clean OS. Is there a Way to reset my partition (or reinstall, obviously) keeping my BootCamp partition safe ? I know I could use my recovery partition but I do not know if it won't delete my Windows and it no longer appears in disk utility.

As I found no answers in the Internet, does someone how how to do that ?

Thanks in advance.

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