Windows running RAID 0 on Bootcamp

Hello,
I've seen plenty of posts related to OS X using RAID and boot camp not letting you install windows, I want to do the opposite of that. I have 3 HD's and the 1st drive is all OSX but the other 2 HD's are for windows. I currently have both windows partitions working fine, now I want take both of those drives and set up a RAID 0 for Windows? would I have to create my own windows install cd and preload the Intel raid files from http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2308& OSFullName=AllOperatingSystems&lang=eng&strOSs=All&submit=Go%21.
I theory i think this would work because you have 2 open drives and the preloaded raid drivers during windows install. Has anyone had any luck?
Thanks

I use RAID for non-Vista boot drive. I have Vista on 10K Raptor.
And I have pagefile and other temp files and downloads on 2nd Raptor.
Two drives for data in RAID. And external RAID.
But Vista needs to have NTFS non-RAID for its Complete PC Backup.
Not sure if Mac Pro can be tricked into installing or cloning to RAID.
Norton Ghost seems to work best (True Image 11 won't).
And getting into the EFI BIOS isn't an option probably.

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