Boot Camp Snow leopard Help! Please answer!

I want to run Win 7 through Boot camp. I have to back up my drive and reformat my hard drive. I have Snow Leopard installed. But the installation disk for my mac is Leopard. Will I lose Snow Leopard when i reformat?

HI Michael,
If you reformat the drive before using BootCamp you will have to reinstall Snow Leopard on the Mac OS X partition.
Reformatting completely erases the hard disk.
I highly recommend you read the BootCamp Setup and Installation Guide before you do anything.
*Make sure and back up all important data first before reformatting the hard drive.*
BootCamp Support
Carolyn
Message was edited by: Carolyn Samit

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