Install Windows 7 with Bootcamp 2HD setup in a MBP

Question

Hello Everyone,
I have a 2010 MBP with an SSD for my main drive and a rotational 750gig for my secondary "storage" drive. I have windows installed via parallels on the second drive for games. But I have realized that when I play games windows taxes my system and I think I could get better performance out of my games if the game was running natively on my system. I only want to have windows installed because some of my favorite games will never make their way over to the Mac platform, no matter how much I cry and begg the developer. Here is my situation:
I have the current bootcamp software and I am able to launch bootcamp.
Bootcamp runs and creates a separate partition on the second drive, the one that I want it on and then restarts like normal.
I have my CD/DVD drive connected via USB and it is recognized by bootcamp and my MBP before the restart. When the restart takes place the drive spins the windows setup disk but does not try to install windows.
My next step is to manually restart the MBP and hold the option key which gives me the option to boot into my Mac OSX disk, Recovery, Windows Install, or BFI Boot (or whatever the windows boot partition of the install disk is). When I choose the BFi or whatever the boot partition of the windows install disk is the screen goes blank and then asks to boot from CD or DVD. I hit the enter key before time runs out and it starts the install. The bar progresses accross the screen and the CD/DVD drive spins up like normal. When the progress bar reaches the end of the screen (the black and white one that says loading windows files) the progress stops and the CD/DVD drive slows and stops. There is a pause and then it starts to spin up again but only to half speed and the screen remains the same (like a hang). I have waited for some time and the screen never changes and the drive evenutally stops spinning.
I think this is a hang but I do not know what could be causing it. I have read that bootcamp will not load from USB, no problem since I can get the MBP to sort of load and install windows from USB anyways. I just cant get past the initial "loading windows files" screen.
Has anyone else experianced this? I have searched the web and this board for this but it seems like I am the only one that has experinaced this situation. Does anyone know what could be causing the hang? I did purchase a new copy of windows 7 HP but it was a download so I had to create a bootable disk. I made two one from within Disk Utilities and one from within my virtual Windows environment.
Any help or suggestions would be great!!

Answer 1

You are correct, the SSD is in the normal HD drive bay and the storage HD is in the DVD drive bay. I wanted to install windows on my non-SSD drive since I only have a few gigs of space on that drive. I have read that for bootcamp to work to completeness the DVD drive must be in the correct bay and not by USB. But I also read that since the latest update bootcamp recognizes non-bay DVD drives like the ones attached via USB.
I can get the installation to start, as I originally said. But it hangs on the "loading windows files" screen. This is my problem. I can get everything else to work, bootcamp makes a partition and all that.