Boot camp assistant problems: please help!

ok, so i was running boot camp assistant on my macbook pro (13 inch) and everything was going fine. But when it was partitioning a space for the windows portion it never showed the bootcamp partition icon to the right on my desktop. I didn't know this was a problem until I tried to install the windows on my computer and it would not work because apparently it does not have the ntfs format. I tried it again two more times, both with no applications running. Is there something I am doing wrong?

You should post in the Bootcamp forum where the Bootcamp gurus hang out.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237
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Once again I am thwarted by my slow typing. Follow the advice of rkaufmann87
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