Changing OS on a Hackintosh/dual boot problem

[Parasitic]

Ok, so I'm running 10.5.6 on my MSI Wind as follows:

One partition OSX (WindOSX86)
One partition Windows XP

I'm having issues with the Windows XP partition where the bluetooth stack is causing a conflict with Windows Firewall and as a result I can't connect to the internet by my wireless card (Dell 1390). I know that it's a driver issue because everything works perfectly fine when (a) bluetooth was disabled from bootup and (b) the stack driver and software were removed from the computer.

So I'm thinking about moving the Windows partition to Vista...some have reported that the MSI Wind runs Vista fine (I've upgraded it to 2GB memory) and I would like to try that without damaging my OSX partition

What would I do then? From what I understand, I need to do the following:

1. Install Vista over the partition I currently have XP on.
2. Repair MBR? How do I do this?
3. Reload Darwin bootloader???

How do I go about doing steps 2 and 3?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ViRGE]

If you're going to use Vista, there's really no need to reinstall the Darwin bootloader; as far as bootloaders go it's fairly lame. EasyBCD can set up a chainloader entry on the Vista boot menu that can load Mac OS X as long as the Mac OS X partition meets a couple of rules* and that's the way I'd recommend going.

* First HFS+ partition, inside of the first 200GB or so of the drive, etc