Questions about Installing Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit on Mac Pro

Hi, I have an early 2009 Quad Core Mac Pro which is running Snow Leopard. I have 4 internal drives in my Mac Pro. Does WIndows 7 have to be installed on the same drive I have Snow Leopard installed or can it be on any of my drives. My boot drive has 215 gb of free space. 2 of them have 100gb of free space and my 2 tb drive has 40 gb of free space. To install Windows 7, do I have to partition one of my drives which would mean erasing all my data? How much free space do I need for windows 7 and programs, etc? Would Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit work? Any info is greatly appreciated

Read the link ""The hatter"" gave you and read the "FAQ's", it will answer quite a few of your questions. Read the Installation manual a few times to familiarize yourself with it before you start and it will make it a lot easier when the time comes.
Windows will be little bit quicker on the Mac-Boot disk only because of your SSD drive. It's rare, but you leave yourself open for problems if anything gets buggered up with both OS's on the same drive. You could lose the Mac side also. You have the chance to save yourself one less problem with it being on a separate drive.
You can install Windows on "any" INternal drive with Boot Camp. Windows can only be installed in the #1 slot on a MacPro if there are any other drives in it. (You can put it in any slot after it's been installed.) And Windows can't be installed on an EXternal drive from a Mac.
Your best bet would be either put one of the internal drives into an external HD enclosure ($15/$20) and replacing it with another blank HD and just splitting it into two partitions or try to free up more space on one of the other drives so you have more room.
Or like ""The hatter""mentioned.
"""You could put OS X HD in lower optical drive bay and put in a drive just for Windows."""
The only problem with making room on an already full drive is that some times some invisible "root" files will be left behind and Boot Camp CAN'T move it and you could get a generic "Can't Install, Files in the way" type error. So you would have to Backup, erase, reinstall to clean it up that way.
It's not so much installing Windows without Boot Camp, but you need BootCamp in order to use the "Start-up Disk" preferences. The Finder can't see the Windows install with out it. No big deal if you want to use the "Option" Key every time to reboot. Boot Camp Also has a couple of preferences like the F-Keys, etc, that you may need to use. It Could be a bigger headache. Boot Camp just makes it A LOT easier for the -non- geeks.

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