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Can I erase OS X after I installed Windows with Boot Camp? [duplicate]

Can I erase OS X after I installed Windows with Boot Camp? [duplicate]

I installed Windows XP on my Mac with Boot Camp, and now I want to erase OS X. Is it possible?

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Guest [Entry]

"From this thread:

All Boot Camp is, is a glorified
partitioner (well, the drivers are the
key). Once you have the drivers, you
could quit out of boot camp and
install XP and erase and reformat the
entire drive as NTSF.

The BIOS compatibility in EFI comes
from the firmware update, which is
required to run Boot Camp, which is a
setup assistant that burns a drivers
CD and partitions your drive. You only
need the firmware update to run
Windows, but Apple won't tell you that

And from here:

Boot Camp drivers are used for things
like the Apple keyboards, trackpads,
mice, special function keys for
brightness, etc. to function in
Windows. You can download a version of
the Boot Camp drivers from Apple's
website, but it is only an update and
doesn't include the full suite of
drivers and device software. Since the
full Boot Camp software is on the OS X
disc, you will need a copy of the OS X
on-hand, but you don't have to have to
keep OS X installed.

Which seems to mean that once all the firmware and drivers were installed, you can erase the OSX partition and reformat it for use by Windows."