Hey guys, hopefully someone can help me on this one. 
I'm a grad student studying forensic computing and as such, would like to have multiple operating systems on my Macbook Pro. I just upgraded my hard drive (and also upgraded to Leopard) from the original 80GB to a 320GB. I partitioned the drive in 3 parts (using the Disk Utility on the Leopard DVD), 1st for OS X, 2nd for my data (1st and 2nd formatted as HFS), 3rd partition I formatted FAT32 for a native Windows installation. When I had Tiger, I used Bootcamp for XP and mounted the drive virtually in Parallels on occasion but liked being able to boot natively as well.
With the new drive, my plan was to run WinXP virtually with parallels, and install Vista with Bootcamp and use Parallels to boot the Bootcamp partition virtually if need be. Unfortunately when I went to use Bootcamp, it told me I needed to have one partition to use it.
I seem to be stuck at an impasse. I have poked around the forums and googled a bit but can't seem to find the right information. I have stumbled upon rEFIt and think that I may be able to use this somehow.
Based on what I'd like to do, is it still possible for me to install Vista natively? A major concern is the multi-partition. I'm pretty set with keeping a separate partition for data on the drive should I need to test, reinstall or if OS X gets corrupted somehow, I only need to mess with the 1st OS X partition leaving the bulk of my personal data intact on the 2nd partition.
Thanks in advance for any help and thoughts you guys have on this!
EDIT: Bueller....Bueller...Bueller...
I'm a grad student studying forensic computing and as such, would like to have multiple operating systems on my Macbook Pro. I just upgraded my hard drive (and also upgraded to Leopard) from the original 80GB to a 320GB. I partitioned the drive in 3 parts (using the Disk Utility on the Leopard DVD), 1st for OS X, 2nd for my data (1st and 2nd formatted as HFS), 3rd partition I formatted FAT32 for a native Windows installation. When I had Tiger, I used Bootcamp for XP and mounted the drive virtually in Parallels on occasion but liked being able to boot natively as well.
With the new drive, my plan was to run WinXP virtually with parallels, and install Vista with Bootcamp and use Parallels to boot the Bootcamp partition virtually if need be. Unfortunately when I went to use Bootcamp, it told me I needed to have one partition to use it.
I seem to be stuck at an impasse. I have poked around the forums and googled a bit but can't seem to find the right information. I have stumbled upon rEFIt and think that I may be able to use this somehow.
Based on what I'd like to do, is it still possible for me to install Vista natively? A major concern is the multi-partition. I'm pretty set with keeping a separate partition for data on the drive should I need to test, reinstall or if OS X gets corrupted somehow, I only need to mess with the 1st OS X partition leaving the bulk of my personal data intact on the 2nd partition.
Thanks in advance for any help and thoughts you guys have on this!
EDIT: Bueller....Bueller...Bueller...