Installing windows 7 64-bit to a second internal drive using BootCamp

I have a Mac mini server (late 2012) with OS X 10.8.5 installed.  This unit has 2 1 terabyte drives installed.  OS X is installed on drive 1.  I can see drive 0 in BootCamp.  However, when the system reboots, after repartitioning drive 0 to make it an all NTFS drive, the windows installer refuses to install to this drive.  Are there any workarounds to installing Windows to drive 0 using BootCamp?

Yes, like others with mulitple drives and using GPT/GUID, the other drives cannot be present (internal and external both).
Disconnect the other drive or format it as Windows partition table in Disk Utility : Partitions : Advanced Options.
Even USB flash drives can interfere as well as external hard drives - anything Windows can see.
Has to do with Windows rules for EFI based systems and GPT.

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