Mac OS erase and reinstall and Boot Camp

Greetings,
I am totally confused. I need to wipe my OS side and I am unsure how this will affect my windows boot camp. One complication is that I do not have my boot camp CD with me nor will I be able to get it any time soon. SO, if I wipe my Mac OS, then I assume I will lose my Boot Camp assistant...but will that make it impossible to access my windows partition? Since I am pretty sure I should wipe my Mac OS and start new, should I first clear the partition and then wipe the whole disk? Then, when I can get my boot camp again, reinstall the partition? Or, can I just wipe my Mac OS and be OK to enter the windows despite not having the boot camp to reinstall?
Help! I have no clue what to do here!
Thanks,
PS: I am using 10.4 Tiger

Confused:
What pray tell do you plan to use to wipe with?
What is a Boot Camp CD?
BC Assistant does one thing only, partition for install of Windows, period.
If you wipe the whole disk, clear (Windows) partition (with OS X utility Boot Camp Assistant) is just extra unnecessary.
Without an umbrella, it always rains, with it, maybe not (ie, backup both beforehand). There is always a change of something going wrong.
Your OS X DVD is all you need to install Mac OS, any Boot Camp drivers, and even includes BC Assistant.

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You could get new enclosures with SATA port multipliers for up to five drives per SATA port.
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Apple says any PCI-e card should work in slot 2
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Conceptual/HWtechPCI/Articles/pciimplementation.html#>
"Mac Pro detects whether an inserted card is PCIe 2.0 (5.0 GHz) or PCIe (2.5 GHz) and selects the operation depending on the card's maximum capability."
but there have been reports of trouble (maybe caused by the recent firmware update). Check with the card maker to be sure.
Problem 2: Boot Camp. Can I purchase the Newer Technology extender cable to access the two eSATA ports on the Mac's motherboard to attach an external SATA drive for this purpose?
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<http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2704&RequestTimeOut=500>
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<http://www.pcconnection.com/IPA/Shop/Product/Detail.htm?sku=7252016>
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1) I assume I can set up an external RAID (another RAID 5?) with my OWC drives and use Time Machine to back up to them?
Yes
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It looks like it should work if you route the cables just above the graphics card.
<http://www.newertech.com/Static/articles/images/macensteineSATA_5.jpg>

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Loyalty4Life wrote:
Thank you for your reply! I'll be here all night.
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I have never installed Windows using Leopard. When I updated to Leopard from Tiger nothing changed, but there seem to be more problems with Leopard and BC2.0 than there were with Tiger and the beta versions.
There are no requirements about legality until after the OS is installed, so that's a moot point.
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