Triple Booting Windows 8 on Second Hard Disk

Hi all,
I have an Early 2011, 15 inch MBP and want to dual boot Windows 8 and Mountain Lion. Currently I have a 750GB HDD installed and have just recently replaced my SuperDrive with a 256GB SSD.
The 750GB HDD is partitioned so that Windows 7 takes up 512GB and Mountain Lion has the rest and I would like to install Windows 8 to the SSD so I can migrate files across from Windows 7 at my leisure.
The problem is Windows 8 is giving me an error as follows:
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style"
Is there a way I can triple boot? If not how can I set up my disks so that Windows 8 runs on the SSD and Mountain Lion on the HDD?
Cheers,
Carl

you need to put the superdrive back, so you can do the install.
you would also need to disconnect one drive anyway in order to install to 2nd drive. you can't have OS X or GUID on one drive and install Windows to a different drive. That applies to my 4-dirve setup Mac Pro too.

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