Boot Camp Configuration & Vista

I was wondering if anyone as tried the following and if they had any problems with it. Has anyone after restarting their iMac by Boot Camp just go ahead and wipe their entire drive including all partitions including the one with OS X on it and then just go ahead and install Vista on the whole hard drive as one partition? Then once Vista was installed go ahead and install all the drivers on it and disable the Boot Camp software since they wouldn't have OS X on it? Also, if anyone has did they have any problems at all starting their computer? I ask this because I'm considering such and just wanted to know that it would work.

Why? If that's your goal then buy a Windows computer.
It's doable but not easily because Windows does not support the EFI boot ROMs, so you would need to use a third-party utility, rEFIt - VersionTracker or MacUpdate - to configure the EFI to boot from a Windows system. This is essentially what Boot Camp does besides create a Windows volume. However, the largest volume you can set aside on a FAT partition is 32 GBs. You might work around this in some fashion to get Windows to format the drive NTFS which accommodates larger volumes.

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