Windows 7 boot camp install failure

I recently lost my HP dual xeon Windows 7 workstation; the motherboard died. I then took the 1TB hard drive out of that pc and installed it in my Mac Pro. It won't boot from the Windows 7 x32 drive, so I backed up the data, and wiped the drive. Now I'm attempting to perform a Boot Camp installation, but even though I've reformatted the 1TB drive as NTFS, the Windows 7 install cd doesn't like the partition. I've even deleted the partition using the Windows 7 disc, but that didn't get it to start working either. Any suggestions? I'd really like to get a Windows environment back up and running because I'm working through some Windows certification material and running from VMWare Fusion is too slow.

Ok, I'll try to install not using the boot camp procedure.
1) I attempted to boot directly from the Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit cd, and all the screen said was "Boot:" and it wouldn't take any input from the keyboard, numbers or letters.
2) I attemped to boot directly from the Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit cd, and it says "Windows cannot install to the selected location, error 0x80300024. When I attempt to wipe the hard drive from having booted the Windows 7 disc, it errs out with "Failed to create a new partition, error 0800040005"
3) Frustrated, I booted from an Ubuntu 12.04LTS CD to see if I could install that to the hard drive instead, and it just gives me a blank mauve screen.
Reminder, this is a 2006 Mac Pro. If I had a steady job maybe I'd upgrade to a 2008 Mac Pro, but there's not many IT jobs in northern Indiana.
Maybe I'll try installing Boot Camp again in a couple of days.

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