Reformat OS X Leopard BUT what will happen to bootcamp/XP drive?

[hellobye]

I want to reformat and re-install OS X Leopard (I am running Leopard currently) however I have Bootcamp going on running XP on its own hard drive bay. I have a Mac Pro 2x2.66 Dual-Core.

I would like to know if i went ahead and reformated leopard will
- my XP drive will be lost?
- Will I be able to access it?
- Will I have to reformat and reinstall XP and all my windows programs?

Thanks...........

 

[gnasher729]

I want to reformat and re-install OS X Leopard (I am running Leopard currently) however I have Bootcamp going on running XP on its own hard drive bay. I have a Mac Pro 2x2.66 Dual-Core.

I would like to know if i went ahead and reformated leopard will
- my XP drive will be lost?
- Will I be able to access it?
- Will I have to reformat and reinstall XP and all my windows programs?

Thanks...........

You use Disk Utility for formatting a hard drive. If you have Bootcamp installed, you most likely have two partitions; one for MacOS X and one for Bootcamp. Just make sure that you only format the MacOS X partition.