Problems installing Windows 7 on the Mac Pro 3,1

I am having huge issues intalling WIndows 7 on this Mac Pro. I bought 2 new SSDs one for OSX and one for Windows. OSX is running great and i ran bootcamp assistant and selected the second SSD and chose to use intire drive and rebooted to start the installation. Everything starts but installer gives an error saying it could not be installed on that drive. I searched the forums and found that you have to remove all ither drives while installing windows so i rebooted and tried again and everything went fine. once everything was done, all updates installed, bootcanp drivers instelled etc I shutdown and pluged the othe drive back in and windows never booted again. I removed all drives but the windows drive and same thing, no boot. I have erased the drived and gone through the whole process several times with same results everytime.

Well I finally got it running smooth again, turns out that one of the windows updates changed the way the licensing works and for some odd reason it no longer works on Mac, go firgure lol. I ended up giving my windows 7 license to a friend who just built a PC so it worked fine for him but I am out $139 .
To get it working again I had to take my Mac Pro to work and let the IT guys install the Enterprise Edition and activate it againist the companies activation server. Works great now but it means I will have to take it to work every 6 months now for activation
I wish Microsft would stop making things so hard for us Mac guys.

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Or restart the system and hold down the Option key for a few second. A Boot Menu screen will come up. Select Macintosh HD.
Once in OS X go to the Sys Prefences, Startup Disk and select Macintosh HD Mt Lion 10.8.2 and click Restart then Restart again. the system will now restart in Mac OS X.
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Well I finally got it running smooth again, turns out that one of the windows updates changed the way the licensing works and for some odd reason it no longer works on Mac, go firgure lol. I ended up giving my windows 7 license to a friend who just built a PC so it worked fine for him but I am out $139 .
To get it working again I had to take my Mac Pro to work and let the IT guys install the Enterprise Edition and activate it againist the companies activation server. Works great now but it means I will have to take it to work every 6 months now for activation
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Dear Gentlemen,
In the past two weeks I tried to install windows on the Mac Pro with *Boot Camp* but unfortunate that the *Boot Camp* dose not support when the Raid Card is installed in the Mac Pro so I ask the support in my area and he said ((just remove the card and the *Boot Camp* will work O.K. but really what happened??
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*My Mac pro Specifications are:*
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• 4GB (4 x 1GB)
• Mac Pro RAID Card
• 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 1.5GB (Stereo 3D, two dual-link DVI)
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Dhahran.
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<http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/MacProRAIDCardInstallation.pdf>
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