Is this a viable alternative to Boot Camp???

While seeking a solution to a problem I was having with running Windows from Boot Camp,
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I was offered this advice.
Does this make sense? The advice follows:
Say you have a hard drive with 2000 blocks. When you want to create a Windows partition, what bootcamp does is slice the amount you requested to make a free space to create a new partition.
If your HFS partition is taking all 2000 blocks, (say you select 50/50) it will recreate the HFS partition basic data to reflect 1000 blocks. You now have 1000 blocks free, which Bootcamp basically creates a new partition but in FAT format.
When that fails, your HFS partition basic data becomes corrupt and causes filesystem errors. Bootcamp when it fails to complete this process, it does not step back to set the partition as it originally was, instead it leaves the unfinished partition info causing the filesystem to become unstable or just downright unusable sometimes giving you the little ? mark at startup because the system cannot find a valid OS X partition.
It would be smarter, that before you install OS X, that you load up the startup DVD/CD and under Disk Utility create two partitions. One in HFS Extended (Journaled) and another in FAT. Once that's done, go ahead and install OS X in the HFS Extended partition you created. Once your installation is done in your desktop you will notice the FAT disk available.
So if you had a 40GB HD, you will see a 20GB HFS (Mac partition) and a empty 20GB FAT (windows partition).
From there you can try installing windows again and the FAT partition you created will be available under the Windows setup menu. If you are still experiencing issues, be advised your HFS partition was never touched by Bootcamp, because you created it manually. So you should have no issues getting on to OS X desktop.
The firmware bootloader to select operating systems is holding down the option key right after the chime. Another and better alternative is refit bootloader which pops up a menu that you can select which OS you request to boot up in without the delay the firmware bootloader provides as it searches for other OSes installed on the system.

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    Message was edited by: Rae Jay

    Rae Jay wrote:
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    Message was edited by: Rae Jay
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