Installing windows from recovery dvd

Hi.
When i first purchsed my Mac, i inserted the Windows recorvery dvd to install Boot Camp. It completly wiped the Mac OS and installed Windows. i then had to format the hard drive and reinstall Mac OS.
Since then i have tried to look into it but i cant find a definative answer.
Can I install Boot camp using a Windows Recovery disc, without wiping my Mac OS?
thanks

Hi,
The dvd is the same brand as the windows pc but i have already had windows on my mac using the same recovery dvd.
as i stated before. I installed windows (thinking i was doing it in boot camp) and it wiped the mac os (so it was a mac laptop running vista only) i had windows working fine (not for long as i didnt want just windows)
So that CD is one the 'rare' ones which include the full set of Windows files, not just the ones the manufacturer needs.
I just wanted to do to it without wiping the mac os
Exactly that's why such recovery-CDs cannot be used.
They just ignore the given harddisk partitioning and repartition the HD to one Windows partition and put Windows on it.
To my knowledge there is no way to change that behaviour.
Sorry
Stefan

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