Not supported hardware to boot from disk

Hi everybody
I have a problem by installing windows vista ultimate on my mac pro. All four disk bays contain the same harddrive (Samsung HD501LJ). Bay 1+2 are configured in a RAID0 array,. Bay3 is a native disk for windows and bay4 is used for the new timemachine feature under Mac OS X Leopard.
I have partitioned the drive with "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)" and set up a second parition with boot camp assistent for windows vista (MS-DOS; 32GB).
In the windows installation wizard, the partition was recognized as "Drive 3, Parition 2 - BOOTCAMP). To boot from this disk, windows vista needs NTFS formatting, so I have run the "Format" Wizard, which was successful.
After this step, the setup returns the following error:
"This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computers's BIOS menu."
"Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation."
Anybody an idea, what's going wrong here?

Thanks for you reply.
I have also tried to install windows vista on a single partition/harddrive. Bootcamp fromats the drive with FAT32, the vista installer do the rest and format the drive with NTFS. The result is the same. Diskspace is now 450gb (hole disk)
Could it be, that the raid0 array for my os x 10.5 make troubles? The drive on which I want to install windows, is not in this raid0 array!
Or do I have to install 64bit-os-version for my mac pro? (xeon 64bit cpus)

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