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Windows in a Mac

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soldano

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I know I can install Windows in a Intel equiped Mac using the boot camp aplication, but is it possible to delete the Mac OS, format, and directly install Windows XP or 7 ?
Thanks
 
Although I have not tried it personally, I cannot see why it you could not just boot of the install disk and do the install like you would normally.

The bootcamp application allows for easy partitioning of the hard drive so it can have mac ox and windows.
 
soldano said:
I know I can install Windows in a Intel equiped Mac using the boot camp aplication, but is it possible to delete the Mac OS, format, and directly install Windows XP or 7 ?
Thanks
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I dont think you can get rid of OS/X entirely.. maybe you could format the OS/X partition after Windows is installed, but what I would do is just keep OS/X there, and set Windows as the default boot drive. Windows then always starts automatically. And all you give up is the OS/X partition.
 
I have heard of a few people that run Windows only on their Macs, so it can be done.

OS X, not OS/X.
 
If Bootcamp installs some BIOS emulation stuff for EFI, then it might work without much problem. But if not, then I'd think XP would be right out.
 
Nothinman said:
If Bootcamp installs some BIOS emulation stuff for EFI, then it might work without much problem. But if not, then I'd think XP would be right out.
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It does indeed install BIOS emulation, that was how I dualbooted XP back in the day.
 
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