This weekend I bought a copy of Bioshock.  A Microsoft only game.  This was fine as I thought all I would have to do is install Boot Camp.  When I got home I fired up the MacBook Pro and went to installing boot camp.  After burning the driver disc I was stuck waiting the the drive to be partitioned.  I went to grab a sandwich and came back to find that the partition had failed.  OSX said it couldn’t move some file and I would have to reformat the drive before I could partition it.  Looks like this isn’t going to be as easy as I thought I said, and went to get out my external hard drive and peruse a reformat.  After booting the OSX install disc I went to Disk Utility and made an image of my drive.  Then booted back into my system and mounted the image just to verify that all my data was there.  All the data was copied, so I reformatted the internal drive.  All well and good so far.  After the format I went to restore the drive from the image I had created, but to my surprise I was unable to do so.  After spending a few hours online trying to figure out how to restore the image Apple.com left me with two options.
One: install OSX on another external drive and boot from that, then restore the internal drive.
Two: boot my Mac into disk mode and connect it to another Mac and restore from the image.

Neither of these options where going to work for me, so I decided I would just mount the image and copy everything to the internal drive.  After that was finished I rebooted to find a black error screen.  This wasn’t what I had hoped for.  By this time my sandwich is long gone and its getting really late, so I say screw it I will just reinstall the OS and spend the next week getting things back to normal.  Off I go on another long operation when I find an option that will copy my old system to a folder and reuse my User folder.  About and hour later I was sitting at the Log In screen for my user account and everything was pretty much back to normal.   Unfortunately I was out of time and didn’t get a chance to try Boot Camp again.  But I would assume it will work.

What I Learned.
1.  I am going to need to find a better way to back up.
2. Through all the madness I somehow gained 5-10GB of extra data.
3.  Games are not always worth it.