Installing Windows on a separate drive in Snow Leopard.

In Leopard, there was an option to choose which internal drive to install Windows on. In Snow Leopard, the option is no longer there. According to the new Boot Camp installation manual, in order to install on another internal drive, I need to "remove the drives in the lower numbered bays." I'm a little confused with the statement. Do I remove the drives that I will not be installing Windows on? ie. Keep only the Macintosh HD and the hard drive I want to install windows on in the computer and remove the others? I already have Vista on the drive that I installed using Leopard.

Boot Camp Assistant isn't really that helpful or good with Mac Pro.
And with Windows 7 (or Vista) once you do format the drive then just remove all the other drives and let Windows DVD do its thing.

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