Bootcamp to Mac Pro Sata in Optical Bay

I received my Mac Pro the other day. After reading some of the discussions regarding different setups, I began setting up my Mac Pro as follows:
I took the 250gb Seagate that came in the Mac Pro out of Bay 1 and installed it under the optical drive. I connected a SATA cable to the mother board and powered the drive using a 4 to 15 pin sata power converter cable. My plan was to use 195gb for MAC OSX and my Mac Applications and to have XP and Doze applications running on the other 55gb.
I loaded the latest updates in preparation for my Bootcamp install. The partition through Bootcamp installer seemed to work fine - then the Bootcamp installer asked me to put XP in the DVD/CD ROM drive and it loaded files. Then the XP installer reported that it couldn't find a hard drive.
It seems like the Bootcamp installer and XP is not able to see the partition created by Bootcamp on my SATA drive located under the optical bay and connected via SATA cable to the MB - even though the Bootcamp installer created the partition in the first place.
At this point, I went ahead and plugged in one of my Bay drives into Bay1. XP was able to see this drive and so I am going to install Bootcamp XP onto that drive. I would really prefer to get Bootcamp XP going on the 250gb under the optical bay.
I had planned on installing 4x500 gb drives in Bays 1-4 and running a couple of RAID-0 pairs. Now XP is hogging one of those drives.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Mike

So I installed bootcamp XP-Pro on it's own Bay1 drive. It's all working beautifully and the setup is as follows:
Mac Pro
2x3ghz
XT1900 w 2xDell 24"W
5 gb RAM (4 of it from Other World Computing)
250gb System Drive OSX (under optical bay)
Bay1 (500gb WD re2) Bootcamp XP-Pro
Bays 2-4 (3x500 gb WD re2 in Raid 0 configuration)
2x 2port Addonics eSATA to Addonics 4 bay eSATA tower with 4x500gb Hitachi
So far - so good. The ability to run XP greatly increases the value of my Mac investment because I can run some of the programs only available on XP.
The Apple discussion boards have been very helpful.
Mike

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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203913
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If your Mac has a single internal disk, click Restore.
If your Mac has multiple internal disks, select the Windows disk, select “Restore disk to a single OS X partition,” then click Continue.
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I hope this information helps ....
- Judy

Will a DVR from a G5 Mac Pro work in a G4 MDD?

Specifically, will a Sony Optiarc AD-7170A DVD±RW work in a G4 1.25MHz dual Mirror door? The drive is a pull from Mac Pro G5. The optical bay in the MDD is ATA-33. The burst specs on the drive suggests ATA-66. The optical bay cable will reach the ATA-66 plugin on the logic board. Is this kosher?
As a "This Old Mac" guy, I welcome your suggestions. I hate to discard neat old things that work well.
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Hello Krumer,
Houston, we have a problem!
G5s & Mac Pros are 2 completely different animals though they look quite similar on the outside, G5's are PPC, have one Optical slot & use IDE Optical drives like G4s do, Mac Pros are IntelMacs & have two optic slots, & might use IDE Opticals or SATA Opticals!
So, with the Sony Optiarc AD-7170A being IDE, I suspect no problems, depends which APPs you want to use it with.

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