Mac Pro Windows 7 Fail

Hi I have a late 2007 8 core Mac Pro
it has been living mostly happily with Snow Leopard and Windows XP.
I need 64 bit windows on it, but since it's not supported on that machine I decided to take the route of installing Win 7 x86 first.
I I wanted to wipe the HD clean and do a fresh install of everything. Snow Leopard installed, but Win 7 gives me a Blue screen of death every time I tried to install it.
I decided to get a new clean hard drive for the install.
re-installed Snow Leopard on the original drive (the whole drive, not just a partition). Restored with a time machine backup to original state and got all the latest updates. So far so good.
partitioned new drive using disk utility. Windows 7 doesn't like it- won't install. First it says it must be formatted as NTFS. I do the format with the windows installer, but still no go- I get "Windows is unable to install.....error: 0x80300024"
No further explanation, so I went back and used the boot camp installer to format the drive. Windows went ahead with installation, but restarted at a certain point and ...again, Blue Screen of Death!
So, I feel like it's either a hardware problem or something to do with whatever is on my Mac that I restored with Time Machine.
Is it possibly something else? Anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Doug

Yes, I used #2 approach myself!
Windows won't install on a separate drive if it sees you have GPT/GUID format for your other drives - so remove them. And for safety.
Obviously you can't remove if it is a one drive with both, the way every other type Mac is forced to do it.
If you use Boot Camp Asst (I did not) then shutdown instead of restart so you can remove everything. And, you will need to format your target drive.
Windows 7 has a 100MB system recovery partition.
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