Installing Boot Camp on a second internal disk

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Ok, so I searched the forums for quite some time on this, but couldn't really find the information I was looking for. Really, I just want to share my experience of installing Windows XP 64bit on a second internal disk, operating with leopard 10.5.2 on an dual quad core Intel box:
The directions for boot camp are specific to installing windows on a partition from your OS X drive and can be a bit confusing for people wanting to install on a secondary internal disk. When you first run boot camp, you are presented with 2 options, create or remove a windows partition or start the windows installer. If you have a partition already formatted for windows, use the second option. In my case, I wanted to create an entirely new windows partition.
You are then presented with the option to choose which drive you want to partition. I selected my second internal disk in bay 2, enabling the "erase disk and create a single partition for windows" option. Do not be fooled. This does not format the disk, it only makes a partition on the disk which you will then later format in the windows set-up. Clicked continue with the windows XP disk in the dvd drive, and the system will then make the partition and restart the computer into the ugly windows setup blue dialog screen.
Here's where I was confused. After loading some drivers, you are then presented with the option to format disks... If you were making a second partition on a pre-installed OS X disk, Boot Camp cleverly makes a title on that partition, telling you which is the correct disk to format <BOOTCAMP>. In my case, I was presented with three options. Disk 1 (J:), which had 300 gb, and disk two, which had two partitions in it already, one at 200mb (D:) and one at 280gb (C:).
DO NOT PICK YOUR OS X DRIVE!!! It will erase your entire mac system. The problem is, if your drives are exactly the same size, there is really NO WAY to tell the difference between the two in the windows setup except for some subtle hints. I unfortunately picked the wrong disk, and erased my machine into the ether.
However, after I reinstalled my OS X drive and tried the XP install again, I found there were clues as to which drive to format. Apparently, windows likes to be installed on drive C:. My background is with Mac, so I didn't catch that hint the first time around. Also, if I paid careful attention to the sizes of my drives, instead of guestimating they were both the same (the mac is just a bit larger than the second internal), I could have solved the puzzle long before I began banging my head on the desk.
Formating the drive is straight forward, but takes about 2 hours to do. Windows goes through it's setup, and before you know it, you have a quasi-functioning windows system on your mac. The final step is to reboot, hold down option, click the windows HD, have your OS X install disc 1 in the drive, then install the rest of the mac-windows driver (automatically does this for you).
Boom. You're done.
P.S. I was told by a apple rep that boot camp does not work with a 64 bit install of XP. It worked for me... eventually!
Hope this helped

Answer 1

I understand that you were able to load windows on another internal disk beside the one where OSX resides. In my case I have two drives that are stripped (software raid). Will I be able use bootcamp with windows installed on a third internal disk dedicated to windows?
Thanks...Chris