Before I buy Mac Pro - Installing Windows XP

I want to run Mac OS10.4 on one hard drive 250GB and Windows XP on a second 250GB hard drive. Is this posssible and what programs do I need to accomplish this if it is possible?

The actual programs you need will be at minimum
Boot
Camp Assistant (which the download Hatter has
linked
you to will install in the Utilities folder) and a
(full) copy of Windows XP or Vista (not an upgrade
disk). Of course you need a full set of Windows
security software also, as this setup will be just
a
vulnerable as any other Windows setup.
This is exactly the setup I am using and am very
happy with it, even though there are a few (minor)
bugs in my setup I can't work out.
You are running XP on a separate drive? What issues
have you had that you haven't resolved? I'm a little
unclear about how possible this is based on the
documentation, it all seems to assume you are putting
the XP partition on the boot volume...
2.66 Ghz Quad Xeon, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB
HD Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2x 500 GB Hitachi,
XT1900XT
My separate setup works too, no problems!
William

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