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littleb2005
Oct 31, 2007, 01:15 PM
i have an imac with a 1tb drive aka 930gb and have split it in to 4 partions

Maintosh HD =232gb
Extra =232gb
P2P=232GB

ALL formated in the mac file system

i created another partion and formated it as fat32 so that the windows installer can see it but it doesn't all i get when i select the partion to install on is one partion with 930gb

anyboady got any idea why the fat32 partion is not showing

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Bill Gates
Oct 31, 2007, 04:53 PM
Did you use the Boot Camp wizard to create the FAT32 partition? If not, you only have a GPT filesystem table, which Windows cannot understand. The Boot Camp wizard creates a hybrid GPT/MBR table.

alecmcmahon
Oct 31, 2007, 10:08 PM
i'm having the same problem, i thought it was cause i tryed installing with a SP1 disk... but i figure i'd be able to get past that point though. Are you installing with a Sp1 or Sp2 disk?

littleb2005
Nov 1, 2007, 05:06 AM
i'm having the same problem, i thought it was cause i tryed installing with a SP1 disk... but i figure i'd be able to get past that point though. Are you installing with a Sp1 or Sp2 disk?

sp2

littleb2005
Nov 1, 2007, 05:08 AM
Did you use the Boot Camp wizard to create the FAT32 partition? If not, you only have a GPT filesystem table, which Windows cannot understand. The Boot Camp wizard creates a hybrid GPT/MBR table.
Did you use the Boot Camp wizard to create the FAT32 partition?No you can't if you got more then 1 partiition

littleb2005
Nov 1, 2007, 12:46 PM
Did you use the Boot Camp wizard to create the FAT32 partition? If not, you only have a GPT filesystem table, which Windows cannot understand. The Boot Camp wizard creates a hybrid GPT/MBR table.

for some odd reason yes windows can read the gpt partition table as it the only gpt partition table i got

none the less i got it working by making sure my windows partition was the third partition and out of the 4 i created

to get it to fully worked you must remove the 200mb efi partition also