Question re Installation of Win 7 (retail) on Mac Pro

I am currently dual booting SL and Vista.I currently have Vista 32 installed on a dedicated, second internal drive on my MacPro. I have purchased the upgrade version of Win 7 Ultimate. I have added a new, "raw" third internal hard drive on which I would like to install Win 7.
If I boot into Vista and start Win 7 setup from the DVD within Vista, can I then install Win 7 to the third internal hard drive described above without affecting the Vista installation on the second hard drive??? I do not want to render the Vista installation non-functional.
I would appreciate any additional thoughts. Thanks.

Did it last night. Only real problem I ran into was my 10.5 disk. When I went to install bootcamp the bootcamp installer told me I need to have Windows XP or Vista and would not allow me to continue. I'm going to see what kind of options I have for that tonight.
There is no reason Windows 7 would do anything to your Vista installation as you are talking about using different drives for each.
I can boot into 10.5, XP or 7 with each residing on it's own drive.

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