Tiger on MacBook Drive and Leopard w/BootCamp and Windows XP on External?

I currently have the latest version of Tiger installed on my MacBook's internal HDD (10.4.11) and I have an External USB HDD that has Leopard (I can't remember if it is the latest or not) installed on it.
I currently am using VMware Fusion in Tiger with a copy of Windows XP Pro, and I want to use BootCamp in Leopard to install Windows XP Pro so I can run it without it being inside a virtual machine. I already have a separate partition (currently FAT32) on the external reserved for the copy of Windows, and I thought that when I went to install using BootCamp, that it would then reformat to NTFS for me.
I think it still would do this, but I do not know for sure as BootCamp will not let me install Windows. It comes up with an error saying something like the BootCamp Assistant won't allow it to run off of an external HDD. Would this be that I have to have Leopard installed on one partition (at least) of my MacBook's internal HDD so that it can install Windows (on either the internal OR external HHD - in it's own partition)?
Is there any easy way to partition my MacBook's internal HDD without having to re-install Tiger during the partitioning (and maybe reformatting?) if I have enough space available on my HDD? I am still fairly new to Macs and I have yet had to do anything with reformatting/repartitioning and re-installing the OS, I have upgraded the OS (on my old G3 iBook), and I had done the separate Leopard install on the External HDD (as I didn't want to ger rid of Tiger and still use Tiger as my main OS, haven't been totally ready for the big switch).
I have cleared off lots of space on my HDD the past week, so I have about 47GB available on my 80GB drive. My external is a 100GB currently in 3 partitions - I think, Leopard installed with 37GB left available, 30GB for my Windows -blank, and I think I have a 10-15GB blank misc storage partition.
I have copies of all my documents and files from my MacBook on my network NAS, and I have copies of all applications installed on my NAS as well (the install files that is). So if needed I could reformat and partition and install various OS's where needed, but I would like to try and NOT have to do this just because my MacBook is now used as my main system (my windows desktop is not even hooked up and my windows laptop has been cleared so that I can try to sell it).
So I would like to at least keep my basic web browsers and other daily apps with info installed for use while trying to get stuff set up to use BootCamp to install Windows XP, but I can totally restart from a blank slate if needed.
I just need some help on exactly what I should do (where to find the "options" I need to change through Disk Utility, and what might be the easiest way (or order) to do these things in.
Any other comments or suggestions would be gladly appreciated, I look forward to getting my MacBook (along with an External USB HDD for added space) set up to run a full copy of Windows and finally let me get away from that dreaded OS (on a Windows specific PC). I stopped liking it back when my dad switched to Win 95 from Windows 3.1, and had much prefered DOS over Windows as well.
I just need to have access to it now and then for little things, and to play some of the (slightly older) games that I have that I do wish to play, but not on a system that makes me waste more time trying to fix/upgrade it/tweak it as I get to actually do ANYTHING on it.
So thanks in advance for any help and suggestions...

Hi,
sadly BootCamp does indeed not support the installation of Windows on external harddisks.
Mostly because Windows itself (courtesy of Microsoft) does not support this either.
There is one how-to, that claims to let you install Windows on an external harddisk, see here: http://tubeshards.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/install-windows-to-a-macintosh-usb-dr ive/
But as you can see, it is quite a hassle and not for the faint-hearted
If you don't want to go that way, your only choice is to install Leopard on your internal HD and use the external for Tiger.
Since you have a 'Windows' partition on your external HD, that is big enough, you can use it to clone your internal Tiger partition to that using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and after verifying that the new Tiger partition is bootable, clone your Leopard from the external to the internal HD.
After both your OSXs are set and checked, you can then run the BootCamp Assistant from Leopard to install Windows on your internal HD.
And at last you can cleaar-up your external HD of everything you don't want/need anymore.
Regards
Stefan

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