Mac Pro - Bootcamp Windows 7 x64 problem. No Drives were found. Please help

Hi,
I have recently purchase a Mac Pro and I was trying to install windows 7 with bootcamp which i successfully done it on my imac before but somehow after I partition my HDD in bootcamp, inside winodws 7 install page it saids "No drives were found. Click Load Driver to provide a mass storage driver for installtion"
I have read some previous post but I didn't really get it how people have solved. I have dismount the other 2 HDD but it doesn't seems to work.
Can someone please help. Is there a way that I can have my windows 7 into my other HDD instead of the Mac OS drives.

You read the PDF Guide? You have to use Advanced Options to format the FAT volume (BOOTCAMP) to NTFS.
And yes, pull other drives.
Personally, I use a separate hard drive for Windows 7 and just pull the others, boot from Windows DVD and install.
I assume your recent MacPro 5,1 is Mid 2010. If you want to use more than 4GB RAM you will want 64-bit, and if you have dual processor 8 or 12-cores, you'd need Windows 7 Pro.
As for where you are now, use Boot CAmp Assistant again to remove the partition on your Mac OS boot drive.
Backup Mac OS to another drive yet? I use SuperDuper or CCC.
You can format the intended drive in Disk Utility.
Use Partition tab, Options and change partition table from GUID to Master Boot Record and format the entire drive as FAT. Or use Boot CAmp Assistant to do so. You'll need to shutdown then, not restart, so you can pull your other drives.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3777

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