Seeking advice, Boot Camp on a Mac Pro, how to install on internal HDD

Mac Pro, march 09, dual quad core, four internal hard drives.
I named the four HDDs, Drive 1, Drive 2, Drive 3, Drive 4. Drive 1 has the Mac OS. I plan on dedicating the entire Drive 4 to Windows OS and video storage.
Questions:
1. Right now I have Boot Camp installed on Drive 1. I want to remove it and start over because I made the mistake of installing Win7 Pro 32 bit. I bought the 64 bit version for the new install. To remove the existing Boot Camp do I simply use Boot Camp to make Drive 1, one Mac partition again?
2. Drive 4 is a Western Digital Black Caviar 2 TB. Should I make the entire drive one partition?

Hi,
1. The BootCamp Assistant in OSX is indeed the best solution to remove your current Windows installation/partition.
+To delete Windows and the Windows partition:+
1 Start up in Mac OS X.
2 Quit all open applications and log out any other users on your computer.
3 Open Boot Camp Assistant.
4 Select “Create or remove a Windows partition,” and then click Continue.
5 Do one of the following:
If your computer has a single internal disk, click Restore.
If your computer has multiple internal disks, select the disk with Windows
on it, and then select “Restore to a single Mac OS partition” and click
Continue.
Since you are fumbling with the partition structure on your harddisk you should have/make a backup or bootable cone of your OSX before starting, just in case.
2. A good recipe for installing Windows 7 on a dedicated harddisk is to pull out all other harddisks (the first three in your scenario) then boot your MAcPro from the WIndows 7 install DVD and install it on the fourth HD.
After completion of the WIndows installation you can then reinsert the other three HDs.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup10.6.pdf
Regards
Stefan

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