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10.6.8 will not see Windows 7 64 Partition Fat32/Ntfs conflict?? Macbook Late 2008

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December 30, 2013 2:01:25 PM

Hi There, a bit stumped here. Decided to do a full clean instal of Snow Leopard and Windows 7 as I had lent a buddy my macbook. Mac OS X does not bring up the partition any longer.
Here is what I think is going on, when starting Boot Camp Assistance I choose my partition sizes (this time 80/240) and boot into Windows 7 Installer 64 Bit. I cannot install on my drive because its FAT 32 (use advance options to convert to NTFS) and commence it then tells me it needs to make a small system partition which I allow, get all my updates, drivers and jazz, reboot to OS X and ... not bootcamp.
Sooo I think because OS X thinks its looking for 1 FAT 32 Drive and comes up with 2 NTFS drives it does nothing. Within Disk Utility (both on system and DVD) it shows the second partition as Disk0s3 which is in Format: MS-DOS (FAT) which is not true, so I try to repair the disk so I can repair permissions but it tells me to back up the drive and format it.

System is a Macbook Late 2008
2.0GHZ 4GB Ram
Snow Leopard
Attempting Windows 7 64Bit

BTW: Macfuse and NTFS 3-G are installed, and I know how to install the 64bit Window drivers even tho "I'm not supported" they work fine :) .

Thanks a bunch guys.

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December 30, 2013 6:27:46 PM

I Have now tried many of things, the closest I got was using Disk Utility to format the drive into NTFS then boot into my Windows DVD, install without formating when it restarts I get a black screen with a forever blinking underscore. have tryed repairing the installations aswell as Bootrec.exe /fixmbr aswell as /fixboot nothing, I am going to give Windows XP a shot. any ideas tho?? I use to get this working in a 32bit enviroment I dont know what the issue is?!?!?

Possibly the 64bit portion missing from my model was the EFI?? if that makes sense at all xD
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