Boot Camp will not finish install

I just bought my first my first Mac Pro 2.4 8 Core with RAID and Lion OS. I can not get Boot Camp to fully finish the install of Windows 7. I get stuck at when the screen ask for which location to install, NO locations in the window. I called APPLE twice and Microsoft once and no help from neither. Any suggestions ? Does RAID have anything to do with it?

If you bought an Apple Pro RAID hardware controller, you can't install Windows.
And the card isn't worth it even if that wasn't an issue, it is, and there is a tech note:
http://www.apple.com/support/macpro - RAID FAQ
Anyone at Apple should have known.
That card has only supported drives of under 2.2TB also.
I would have advised on fast 4 or 6-core rather than slower 2.4.
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