Uninstalling Boot Camp on OS 10.5.7

I have Windows installed on a separate drive that is untitled. When I tried to uninstall Boot Camp - and asked what I wanted to do - "restore to a single MAC OS partition" was not a choice. Only allowing me to "erase disk and create a single windows partition"
Assume I want to do that and when done reformat the hard drive for the MAC PRO????
Thanks for your assistance!

The Boot Camp Assistant will remain on your computer, but can be deleted manually if you really want to do so. All the other components will be erased; if the computer was set to start up into Windows, change it from the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences.
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I then tried to follow the steps I derived from 2 different forums to create a Windows XP boot disk from my Virtual PC disks.
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Since then, I decided to use Parallels instead of Boot Camp. I bit the bullet and purchased both Parallels and Windows (XP Pro w/SP2 on OEM disks for $135.)
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So I decided to quit out of BC Assistant, relaunched the program, and selected "Restore" again. I now have my horizontal blue and white swirling "barber pole" back (what is that called?), the Status is "partitioning disk", and I'm wonder how long this is supposed to take.
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Hi and welcome to Discussions,
when you install Windows 7 in VirtUalBox you have to reactivate it with Microsoft, which deauthorizes your BootCamp Windows 7 license.
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