Completely unable to boot camp windows 7 on Mac Pro

I am at the end of my rope. I have a Mac Pro 1,1 - 2.66 quad core, 7 gigs of ram. I have been trying over and over and over to Boot Camp Windows 7 onto a secondary hard drive. But every single time time, it hangs indefinitely or straight up freezes during "completing installation". I have scoured the interent for answers. I have tried typing shift+f10 when it hangs and typing in explorer.exe. This doesn't work. I have tried having all USB devices unplugged. I have moved the drive from bay 2 to bay 1 and having the other 2 drives empty. I have tried multiple discs. And from what I have found, the Mac Pro is completely unable to boot from a USB drive with the Windows 7 installer on it. WHAT DO I DO? Please help!

your mac pro like mine has older EFI firmware that does not support booting Windows 7 64-bit.
You will have to remove all other drives.
Before you do, reformat the drive you want ot use as Windows Master Boot Record and FAT32, then format the drive with Windows during install.
Get rid of whatever is on the drive now.
You will be limited to 1.9GB RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium supports just one cpu, you have two.
64-bit Windows requires UEFI which you don't have and would need to edit and modify the DVD (reburn after using Imgburn).
Easy method: do basic install on a PC and then put the drive in the Mac Pro.

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