Windows 7 eSTAT exterinal installing BootCamp DRIVERS HELP!!!

# NEED HELP WITH BOOTCAMP DRIVERS & eSAT external DRIVE!!!
# I have triple boot OSX 10.6.4 , Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.4 on PowerMac G5 Quad INTEL 16GB ram.
# I have 4 internal Drives make my RAID. I'm booting 64 bite Kernel.
# Using 3 external eSTAT drives to boot 3 OS's. 2 of those drives make BOOT Raid with OSX 10.6.4 & my Xcode Dev drive with 10.6.5. I have my Home Directory on 3rd partition of Boot Raid.
# I have no issues with installment of Windows 7. I have to format Drive with Disk UTILTY as Master Boot Record & GUID!!! Formating in WIndows will not work, cause OSX wants to initialize Disk. GUID will not work after 1st boot in Windows 7 installation it want boot back to start point for installation to finish. MBR format works!!! I tried BOOTCAMP install off OSX DVD, didn't work. SO next pulled just 64 bit Drivers off DVD and i get same result, CRASH CRASH CRASH!!!!!!!!!!
# anybody know a work around??????????
# I have not gotten to ubuntu installation yet, doubt i will have any issues with it. except few tweaks which im well aware of. EXCEPT reFit doesn't work on RAID, i'm hoping to use reFit or yboot on ubuntu drive. 1st i need to figure out windows BootCamp driver Problem!!!

You do have trouble.
You have a Mac Pro most likely that sortof looks like the older G5s.
10.6 doesn't run on PowerMacs, nor of course does Windows.
10.6.5 isn't out and you'd be under NDAs.
I just pull drives except the one for Windows 7 and format the drive with Windows DVD.
Disk Utility Partition Options... is either GPT or MBR, not both.
Boot Camp Assistant will format an entire drive as FAT w/ MBR.
Windows 7 on EFI based Mac will not boot off external drives.
It will install and boot off eSATA on PC if the BIOS and motherboard SATA ports support it.
And pull your 4 internal RAID drives.
Read and follow the PDF Guide in Boot Camp Assistant and things work.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
Apple's Windows drivers don't play any role installing Windows, only of use afterwards. And then to add motherboard support primarily (you still need ATI, RealTek and other drivers yourself).

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I make this post as I found a way to solve my issue and this could be interesting to other people:
1. Download the latest nvidia drivers (285.38) on nvidia website: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?
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Checked VMware Fusion Community Forum?
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