I have XP and windows 8 with bootcamp. what happen if I delete W8. Xp still boot up after deletion?

Hi all!
i have XP and W8 With bootcamp. Can I delete completely W8 and XP still Boot up?
Thank for your answer.

I have not used multiple drives so can not speak from experience. From this community I have learned that one needs to remove all drives except the one to receive a Boot Camp/Windows installation.
I think this would be the most prudent way for you to remove Win 8 from the 2nd HD. Remove drives 1 and 3 then boot into drive 2 Mac OS X 10.7 and use Boot Camp Assistant to remove the BC/Win partition.
Another option can be used if you have an adequate sized external HDD. Clone the Mac 10.7 partition with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to the external drive. Then boot from this external drive and use Disk Utility to reformat the internal drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with GUID Partition Table. Then clone the external drive with 10.7 back to the original internal drive.

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