Unistalling vista in parallels and installing xp in boot camp

okay i have a macbook, running leopard. i currently have parallels running vista but i want to remove both and install boot camp and xp with a disk my friend has. i got my computer from macmall and so they installed vista and parallels.
can i remove vista and still be able to register it in the future as an authentic version? (i paid for it.)
is this possible (remove parallels and vista put on xp via boot camp)?
will i be able to use vista in the future if i install it?
please help me a bit the process too...
thanks a lot

I just recently had to do this with Parallels and XP-SP2. I asked the same question, do you need to remove Parallels and the Windows install.
Yes. Some might argue no, but I did.
Cleared all of Parallels and then set up Boot Camp for the partition size required, installed XP-SP2 and followed up with Leopard DVD to do the Mac Drivers. All went well including the activation.
And, I had to go back and re-install Parallels to point to the Boot Camp install, which went well.
But, yes, a secondary activation was required, and a simple quick call finished it all off.
Please note, no call was necessary for the Boot Camp (re-)installation.
Despite the Vista differences, I would suspect it would work out the same with regards to activation.

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SamMill wrote:
Hi I have 10.5 and boot camp running right now on my mac. I would love to go back to 10.4 because everything that I use my computer for runs like we all know better.
We all do not know this. All three of my Mac run better with Leopard.
Do all I need to do is do an archive & install? will boot camp still work afterwards if I leave the boot camp partition alone? Could I then delete the (Previous System folder) it makes once everything is A O K ?
You are in uncharted waters with BootCamp. I suggest making a complete block-by-block clone of your HD before degrading to Tiger. Most times, to install Tiger you have to do an erase and install. And you may need to use the Leopard DVD to erase the HD since Tiger may not understand the Leopard OS on the HD.
I have Tiger running on the bottom of my TM harddrive, in its own partition as a dual-boot system. Works OK, but it's nowhere near Leopard in performance. I rarely use it.
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If i buy parallels can i install it with boot camp?

So yeah If i buy parallels can i install it with boot camp?

bootcamp is a bootloader
a setup tool for osx
and a zip file with tested windows drivers and programs for the apple hardware
one use the setup tool to make some of the apple hd windows filesystem
one install windows on the space and the bootloader let you hold down option key to boot into what you want to use today
parallels is a virtual machine as in running windows under osx in a window if one wish
parallels can as the only virtual machine that I know of access a bootcamp patition directly where other virtual machines just keep the other hd as a file
when parallels use the windows partition it will like other virtual machines not be able to access the video card for 3d games though that is only for real bootcamp
users who don't need to play fancy 3d games on windows will have an easier time using a virtual machine like parallels or virtualbox(free) or wmware
they require much much much less tech knowlege to install and dont have driver issues like bootcamp can
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If I install the windows component in order to run an exe file and its component "Declans Korean Flash Cards"... will it make my mac suseptible to viruses overall due to having a windows component? also will it make my mac slower as well

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Hi there,
I just recently purchased a 24" 2.8Ghz intel iMac 500GB harddrive with OS X 10.5.2. I plugged everything together yesterday morning and the computer was going fine, just liek a dream. On a side note I was genuinely impressed with the ease of setting up and how quick, intuitive and reliable the mac and OS X Leopard was.
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Later in the afternoon I decided to install Win XP via Boot Camp. I knew that XP SP2 or later and VISTA was recommended but I decided to use my XP Home Edition "2002 version" install disc instead.
I opened up the Boot Camp Assistant, partitioned 15GB of the 500GB harddrive, inserted WinXP install disc and the computer restarted with everything going to plan thus far. I was going through the install process as normal but I came to a window asking which partition to use to install XP ("c" or "d") or if I wanted to create another partition. I also had my iPod still connected to the computer and I think the installation recognised that harddrive too (all 12GB of space left on my iPod). I wasn't sure what to do so I decided to quit the install process by pressing the relevent keys ("press F3 to quit" etc). Upon automatically restarting the computer I first came to a white screen for about1 or so minutes and then a black screen came up with white text asking me to "press any key to 'something' the CD" (can't remember what the rest of the text was), but the keyboard was unresponsive. I turned the computer off and unplugged it as according to the instruction manual that came with the mac, waited the suggested 5-6 seconds, turned it back on but I came across the same screens. I couldn't eject the XP install disc either. I restarted the computer again, held down the eject button whilst restarting, the disc thankfully ejected but I then came across the same black screen but with no text, just a white flashing underscore cursor. I decided to remove my iPod and restart the computer again. AGAIN I came across the same white screen, then black screen with the flashing white underscore cursor and unresponsive keyboard. I decided to insert the OS X install disc 1 (I don't remember if I inserted it whilst at the black screen or if I restarted the computer and THEN inserted the OS X install disc). The disc loaded slowly but I eventually went through the install process (choosing your language) and then came across a window asking me "Where would you like to install OS X?" but I couldn't install it anywhere. I opened "disk utility" or some program with the word "disk" in it, had no idea what I was doing, somehow created a new volume (though I thought I was actually erasing the XP partition I set up earlier) but in MS-DOS FAT Format or something. I then was able to choose a place (or volume) to install OS X but I had to change the format of the untitled volume from FAT to something along the lines of "Mac OS X journaled (enabled)" (whatever that means). There were other format options available but I just chose the top one on the list (Mac OS X journaled (enabled)). I then made a full install of OS X 10.5.2 and late last night downloaded the latest pdate for Leopard (10.5.4) along with other updates. The computer is working fine now thankfully andeverything seems to be back to normal.
I just want to know what actually happened. What did happen to my computer? Did I somehow wipe the harddrive? Why didn't the computer reboot to HDD when I ejected the WinXP install disc? Which format is the HDD formatted to? What does "Mac OS X journaled (enabled)" mean? Also how come my HDD is 500GB whereas when I checked Boot Camp Asistant a second time (but not installing Win XP again) My HDD is 460GB with 440GB of available space? Is there still another partition I am unable to see? Is there an extra 40GB of data floating around the harddrive that I'm unaware of? What are the factory settings for my computer? I really hope I haven't formatted the disk and installed the OS to settings that weren't like how the computer was originally set BEFORE I regrettably tried to install WinXP via Boot Camp.
If anyone could respond or give me some sort of advice, explanation or help I would very much appreciate your assistance.
Cheers.

According to wiki "the documentation from Apple states that Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista is requisite for a Boot Camp installation, and it also mentions that trying to install an unsupported operating system could prevent the computer from booting even into Mac OS X". Sure that was from wiki, but it does seem to support and somewhat validate the problem I had with installing an earlier edition of XP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootCamp_%28software%29#Other_operatingsystems
Thanks for the info on the Filesystem info. My problem is that installing OS X on a mac is just a little bit more technical than installing Windows on a PC as there are a few more things to consider. Plus I'm not familiar with any of the utility programs as well. It's a **** miracle I managed to somehow create a volume to install OS X on when I thought I was erasing the partition I created for WinXP.
But I'm still not sure about the missing 40GB from my 500GB HDD. Upon coming to the desktop straight after OS X was fully re-installed I noticed that the HDD only had 460GB and that 440GB of it available space. So the full installation of OS X was 20GB, but where has the other 40GB gone? I swear I saw that I had much more available space on my harddrive (BEFORE I tried to partition my HDD under Boot Camp Assistant and stuffing up the computer). Is the missing 40GB from the ORIGINAL FACTORY INSTALL of OS X INCLUDING all my iTunes music and other files I uploaded to the computer earlier? It would make sense but there's no way, as far as I know, of checking this. Any ideas?
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Is it possible (and/or even advisable) to install Windows on my second internal without Boot Camp? (i.e. reformatting the entire drive as one Master Boot Record Partition, then boot and install from Windows disc directly)?
If so, are there instructions for doing this anywhere? or would i just do it the same way i would install a new Mac OS from cd (more or less).
After that, would I insert Leopard CD and install drivers as usual?
If done this way, would there still be a way to boot back to Mac OS from windows? or would i have to do the option key at start up process each time?
No other reason than that I'd like them each on their own drive.
I will likely install Vista, but might wait to buy 7, if that matters. Primarily for games.
Thanks again.

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http://derekhat.com/install-vista-on-a-macbook-without-bootcamp/
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