Boot camp with Vista?

can i run boot camp version 4.0.1 with Windows Vista Home Premium edition? I used to have it until I replaced my hard drive and upgraded to Lion. Now it seems that only Windows 7 will work and I'll have to buy that OS.

Rule #1: Clone your system and keep an image or partiton wth the original or last versions of OS.
That means you could have just cloned your old system onto the new drive.
Or installed Lion on an external and then run Setup Assistant, and then clone the system back.
Carbon Copy Cloner can clone not just Lion but Lion Recovery also.
And do keep the Lion installer package and don't let it get deleted. Doesn't make sense I know and why it doesn't just hang around or put the 3.4GB on Recovery partition or one of its own.

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I am considering moving to mac but I have a couple of PC games that I would like to continue using. These games are red alert 3, tomb raider anniversary and i would like to get sims 3.
How well will games play on the new 2.66GHz 24" iMac? or would I need a better computer?
Also will the mac version of sims 3 work well on it, or will this work better if i got the windows version and played it using boot camp.
Finally would it be advised I used XP instead of vista or would it still be possible to play these games using vista with boot camp.
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