Can't install windows it says the boot camp partition is not formatted as a NTFS file structure

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Can't install windows it says the boot camp partition is not formatted as a NTFS file structure

Using boot camp assistant it gets to the point of installing windows 7 and it won't because the boot camp partition is not a NTFS file structure. It also seems strange to me that there are 5 partitions would have expect ether 2 or 3. Please help this is very frustrating.

Thanks in advance

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), Using boot camp

Posted on Sep 20, 2013 4:08 PM

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Kappy

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Sep 20, 2013 4:11 PM in response to Curt1232

Open, if not so already, the Windows formatter. Identify the BC Windows partition. It will be the one listed with the proper size you created and/or will be labeled as a C: drive. Be careful you select the right one or you may be corrupting the entire drive.

Format the partition as NTFS.

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