Install Windows 7 natively on 2nd MacMini drive?

I have a 2 drive MacMini SL server which is running plain ol' SL. I want to install Windows on the second drive and not through bootcamp. Can I just go into Disk Utility, erase and reformat the 2nd drive at MS-DOS, and then copy all my files that were in the bootcamp partition over including the WIndows files? The Genius Bar said yes but it was a quick conversation during checkout after I got the mini (with the new motherboard!) back. I just want to make sure I'm doing this right and not screwing it up. I still have the Win7 bootcamp partition on the boot drive so I've not lost anything but I want this to be an exercise in futility. Thanks!

I don't see how this could work. Bootcamp provides required Windows drivers.
Why would you want to do this?

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