Installing Windows 7 in a MacPro with three drives

Hi all,
I wonder if it´s possible to install Windows 7 using BootCamp in my MacPro. I have two RE2 Western Digital drives a as RAID and another SEAGATE single drive. Can I install BootCamp in this drive? BootCamp is reporting RAID isn´t allowed! What RAID??? It´s a single drive!
Thanks in advance,

Boot Camp Assistant is a very crippled partition tool that also isn't needed.
Just pull your RAID and boot from Windows 7 DVD.
When done with updates and all, pop the RAID back in.
AppleHFS driver in Windows Boot Camp 3.x that Apple Setup adds can't see or read your RAID and is known to be problematic at times.
You may have to set the default boot OS from Windows control panel (way way too many things are called "Boot Camp" that it gets confusing or seems like it, why not Windows Startup Disk? or "OS Manager" instead?).
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