Boot Camp Assistant NOT letting me to remove/install windows

Hi all,
Some how after an update, the Boot camp HD disapeared from the startup disk utility so I could not boot my Mackbook pro in Windows 7. Then I tried to uninstall Windows 7 using Boot camp assistant but with no luck. Finaly, I decided to erase the Bootcamp HD partition using the Disk utilities and then Enlarge my Mac HD.
Now, I am trying to install windows 7 again using the Boot camp assistant but I got this dioluge in teh pic attached. As you can see, i cannot select the second option which is install or remove windows 7.
Any solutions.

No, not now. Once you used Disk Utility to remove the Windows partition you prevented Boot Camp from managing the drive. You can either repartition the whole drive from scratch or you can purchase Paragon Camptune X 10 and see if it can't help put humpty-dumpty together again.

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I'm having problems installing Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro. I have the iso file on my external hard dirve and have went to Boot Camp but the following message comes up:
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The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows."
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   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            81.9 GB    disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 2          78.0 GB    disk0s3
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or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
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Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
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gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 625142447
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L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
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I scoured the post here and in the Snow Leopard forum and gathered a lot of good info regarding partitions and Boot Camp.
I am planning to divide a 500GB drive on a MacBook Pro into 5 partitions, one of which I plan to install Windows 7 Professional (32-bit). The 5 partitions I want/need are:
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- Not sure if the boot camp assistant will let you go that interesting...
- Were you thinking about using refit to select partitions on boot? I can vouch that it works well, but keep in mind that the MBR that it creates can only support 4 partitions as you noticed.. in practice i've only been able to create 2 dos/ntfs partitions that you can use to boot windows off.
My drive setup is as follows:
- 1 420gb partition for osx and data (since bootcamp 3 has read support for the apple file system, i keep my media etc on this partition to keep apple app's happy and use read access from windows).
- 1 40gb partition for windows.
- 1 40gb partition for windows data (so you can reinstall windows if you need to and keep your games/standalone apps somewhere without having to reinstall).
How i go about this is:
1. Boot into your mac with the osx install/restore dvd.
2. Run diskutils.
3. Create your partition structure as needed. (i'm not sure if you can preserve your osx partition when creating new fat partitions, i think resizing works ok, but i always delete the partition structure and start fresh).
Its important under this step to create your dos partitions here and format them as fat32. I found it a real hassle/impossible to tell your osx about dos partitions later if you create them in a different way later. Without too much effort, osx doesn't seem to like logical dos partitions.
4. Reinstall osx if you want/need.
5. Boot into osx and install refit.
6. Reboot with the windows cd in, and from refit, run your windows installer.
Also important, while you install windows, chose one of the dos partitions, and format it to ntfs, but dont add/delete partitions from windows installer. In my experience, as soon as you let the windows built in partition tool touch the partition table on a mac, you've lost your mac partition. No refit, no mac selection, straight to windows. ie, start again. If you simply format a fat32 drive created via disk util.. all is fine.
After all is done, when you boot back into osx, your windows partitions will be available (though read only if ntfs). Your osx partitions should also be available in windows.
I've tried using a partition tool in windows with some success (easus partition manager i think) but when i added new partitions via this, i couldn't/gave up getting those partitions visible in osx..
Getting windows and osx partitions to play nicely in both operating systems is a quite fun and long adventure if you want more than 2 partitions As mentioned earlier, how i run is my bulk storage is on the osx partition, keeps apple apps happy and read access via windows works better than the other way around.
Another handy trick is you can backup your windows partition with a mac utility called winclone. If you've gotten into the habit of keeping images of clean, activated windows installs for a quick restore its great. I've tested myself on a windows 7 install and it works well (save that the boot entry somehow shows up as windows vista business on restore, i had to get in with bcdedit to fix it).

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Trying to install Windows XP on my MacBook Pro (10.7.3). When I go through the process the Select Tasks page only offers Install Windows 7. I have my Windows XP (w/SP2) disk in the optical drive, but BCA keeps saying it can't find the installer.
I checked my disk partitions and only see HD Recovery Partition. Isn't that one created when Lion is installed.
What am I doing wrong?
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To jtfey
Here is the method to install Windows Xp with using Mac OSX 10.8.1 [mountain lion] with boot camp assistant 5.0 "That doesn't support Windows XP! "
i found out!
You need:
1.Windows 7 original or image of original burned on DVD.
2.Windows XP original or image of original or any WinPe based bootable CD/DVD
3.Patience.
As ussual create partition with Boot Camp to install Windows 7, remember you must have Windows 7 disk in
your CD/DVD drive! When system auto reboots you just need to change Windows 7 with Wndows XP in CD/DVD drive.[Click and Hold Ttrackpad button & also "alt" button on your MacBook Pro before it starts after rebooting until the Windows 7 DVD comes out then insert Windows XP CD and wait until cd icon appears, chose that icon and click enter ] You'll proceed to ussual Windows XP installation process. Thats it!
P.S.
Now, answers to other people in this forum thread !!
q: By the way. what XP programs don't run in Windows 7?
a: Carmageddon + Splat Pack for dos or windows running terrible under Win7 and don't tell me abaut    emulation of dos!
    This games under DosBox (The best dos emulator in my opinion) are laggy. Or if you want to use any      dos programs in FULLSCREEN without any problem, Windows Xp is the key!
Cris said: "Games. The vast majority of people using Boot Camp at this point are gamers. And I find it irritating   to take my limited time helping people **** away theirs......."
My Answer To Cris: jtfey asked help with his problem! noone needs your point of view about gaming e t. c.
If you can help then help without questions like "what for do you need...bla,bla,vast majority of people,bla,bla" !!!

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