Erasing XP and installing Mac OS 10.4.7

I removed OS 10.4.7 from my iMac a while ago so I am only running XP on it. I want to put the Mac OS back on and have a partition so I can still run XP. It seems to me that the only way to make this happen would be to completely erase the the hard disk and load Mac OS, boot camp and then XP. Am I wrong? Also, if I were to reinstall Mac OS in place of XP, would the process be the same as if Mac OS was installed on my computer the entire time? Or is there a special procedure? Thanks.
Nate

Having read through the topic, I do hope that you haven't gone ahead and got rid of Windows XP?
There are Windows Disk Partitioning programs available such as Partition Magic (which costs money but there are free ones available) which will let you resize the NTFS partition thus creating some unused (or unformatted) space on the hard disk which you can then install Mac OS X onto.
I have been using Partition MAgic for 10 years and it is simple to use have used free programs (sometimes found on PC magazine cover DVDs) also.
I have not used bootcamp but assume that it will be able to work with the existing XP partition once you have re-installed Mac OS X

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