Does re-installing OSX from scratch make XP unbootable?

I'm considering upgrading to Leopard, and in doing so would like to wipe my Tiger installation and start from scratch. Will doing so wipe some boot sector stuff so that my Bootcamp XP partition will be unbootable? I hardly use OSX and use Windows 99% of the time, so preserving my existing XP installation is far more important than upgrading OSX.
Any advice appreciated.

Hi minimoog,
the 'boot'-informations are saved in the 200MB-EFI-partitions on the harddisk, which usually are invisible.
If you only erase the Tiger partition and in no way alter the partitions or repartition your HD, the the Windows partition will stay intact and bootable.
Personally I would suggest making a backup of your Windows partition before the Leopard installation, just in case.
Regards
Stefan

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