WARNING: BACKUP ALL OF YOUR DATA (Great free solution for Mac: Carbon Copy Cloner (Sorry PC users!!)) BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS X-TREME GEEK STUNT!!!
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1. NTFS format!
2. Supports XP/Vista software!
So I took the risk of installing it with Boot Camp. Since I had failed multiple times in the past with ubuntu (didn't meet the golden requirement of NTFS format!) which messed up my partition map, Boot Camp didn't like it. Thank you carbon copy cloner because I had all of my stuff backed up, so I brought it into the Apple Store and let them wipe it out and reinstall. Upon turning it on, it asked if I wanted to import any settings, apps, and files from another mac or hard drive, so I just plugged in my backup drive and I was able to restore everything, and still have a clean single partition. So after all of that Boot Camp was happy again. :-)
I created the new partition (FAT16) with Boot Camp and downloaded the Win7 cd and got the key. I popped in the CD and I was met by an easy instaler. I reformatted the FAT16 partition as NTFS and installed on that. The install went smoothly, and there was only 1 thing left: Drivers. This is where the second golden requirement comes in.
The leopard install disk that came with your Mac includes the drivers compatible with Windows XP and Vista, and not for any other OS. Luckily, Windows 7 works with all windows software, which was a large glitch in Vista.
The driver install went cleanly as well, so here I am able to run any PC application without the purchase* of Windows.
*In many cases still requires purchase of software.
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