Bootcamp partition not windows compatible!?

Ok.. so i use bootcamp to partition my hard drive and then when i go in to install to the partition, it says its not a windows compatible format! Yes.. i can format the partition to be windows compatible, but then that names the drive "untitled" which shows up on my mac os desktop!
Whats up with this and what should i do?
Thanks!

In Windows change the property on the disk drive to rename it to something you like.
Vista uses NTFS. And BootCamp Assistant doesn't create an NTFS partition, just FAT for use only with XP.

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Hello Apple (Mac) Community,
I originally posted this question over on answers.microsoft, but no help was forthcoming. Hope someone can help me with a problem that's (almost) making me nuts! I teach graphics to college students. In brief: I run Windows 7 Pro 64 on a Mac Pro tower, along with Snow Leopard (OSX). Windows is loaded on one partition of a 1TB drive. The other partition is a Mac backup. The Mac OS is on a different drive. Everything was going swimmingly with both OS, until recently. Unfortunately, the drive with Windows showed problems and I determined that the HD was either toast or needed a total reformat. My Mac data was all backed-up. Now I wanted to backup Windows so I can easily get back to the relatively happy point of my Windows 7 experience (drivers loaded, dual monitors all working, etc.). I did some online searching and the recommendation was to create a "system image" of the existing Windows 7 install by attaching an external drive, formatting that to NTFS and selecting "backup to image" in Windows. I did that and also took the opportunity to "create a backup disc" on a DVD. (Windows recommended). Next I rebooted back to Mac OS and completely reformatted the problem 1TB disc to a single partition, zero all data, just to see if it would actually reformat. It all worked! So far, so good. Next I used Bootcamp to create two partitions, one for Windows. I then restarted using the Win7 Pro (64) install disc, reformatted the Bootcamp disk to NTFS (as required) and installed Windows 7. After all that is completed and all working, I next try to use the restore from image function while booted in Windows. I'm instructed to restart from the Win install disc, which I do. Here's where things get difficult. When I try to choose restore from image, at that point the installer asks which drives to I want to exclude... but does not show partitions, only full HDs. I do not want to reformat the entire 1TB drive. I only want Windows on the 120gb Bootcamp partition (which is already formatted for Windows BTW). I spent a lot of time online reading through articles with users having the same frustration.
So here (at long last) is my question: How can I either restore Windows just to a Bootcamp partition... using "Windows System Image" or if that can't be done... can I somehow import all of the settings, etc. from the "image" (image is on external HD) into a fresh Win 7 install? So far the "backup disc" also seems useless. I can't even boot to Windows from it. BTW Apple folks: the only response on the MS side was that some "expert" simply posted links on how to install Windows and restore... not helpful with my particular problem of restoring to a partition.
Any help would be appreciated! Hopefully some help that even a Mac user / new Windows user could understand would be better! Thanks!
-melt

WinClone 3 is OS X and saves Windows image it makes for restore - that should work but you will have to try and you would need to make a new image unless it also works with a native Windows system restore image. It is now supported and has come a long way.
http://www.twocanoes.com/
Paragon Clone OS works and does disk-to-disk clone just like CCC you end up with two bootable drives. But does not work with your setup. It would let you clone and move your Windows install to an SSD or another disk drive though and be bootable.
During its clone process it checks for errors which is very helpful and lets you know - something CCC and others should adopt more of.
http://www.paragon-software.com/downloads/demo.html
I wish for our/my sake you had re-read and rewritten the long 'story' and broken it into a brief list of facts we needed.
OS X
Windows
Backup (though external is much safer) and you want bootable OS X clones as well as TimeMachine
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
There are a number of things to do like chkdsk and others as well as Windows DVD to do automatic system repairs and find out why.
AppleHFS - the abilty to mount and read HFS volumes can be notorious.
I would rearrange and redo your storage setup and how you use the 4-5 internal hard drive bays.

Ran DiskUtility on Bootcamp partition, now windows cant boot

I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my MBPr and it was booting fine several times.
I noticed yesterday the bootcamp partition was no longer showing System Preferences -> Startup Disk
I could still get Windows 7 to boot if I did a restart on Mac OSX 10.7.4, held down the Option button during startup, then I was given the Bootcamp partition as a choice.
I went back into Mac OSX, and tried running Disk Utility to verify and then repair the Boot Camp partition. It thought it found all kinds of errors and claimed to fix them. I let it very and fix the main root drive (my entire hard drive) and it claimed tor repair the boot paritions.
Bootcamp still not showing in System Preferences -> Startup Disk
Now Windows 7 does not boot properly, it comes up into system repair mode. And it can not restore to an earlier point in time. All the system repair options crash with memory reference errors shortly after they get started.
I guess it is was silly to expect the Mac Disk Utility to properly repair a windows drive. But if it can't do this, the option shouldnt have been offered!
So I guess its time to erase the Bootcamp partition and start over. Good thing I didn't install anything important in Windows, other than all the updates.

The option won't be there unless you added a 3rd party NTFS driver that is suppose to add NTFS write support.
And that driver is why Windows didn't show in Startup Disk (which does happen too on its own and is totally benign)
If you want to repair Windows, use chkdsk and/or the Windows 7 DVD you have. Not Lion DU.
You dont' erase NTFS in DU either. you can format it in Windows 7 DVD, yes, just like you did originally.
And when you get it running, make backup system image(s) with WinClone 3 (in OS X, to an external hard drive - not to your Mac boot volume)
http://www.twocanoes.com/
if you are going to use and need to write to NTFS, the only one current and work best today
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Did a fresh Bootcamp install of Windows 7 on my MBA running 10.9.4, switched back and forth a few times and now the BOOTCAMP partition doesn't show up in the left pane in Finder. I hopped into Disk Utility to see what was going on and it was there, just not mounted, so I clicked mount, was told it couldn't be mounted, and it suggested I run first aid on it. I clicked Verify, nothing useful to me, then Repair, and got quite a lot of feedback that I do not understand, and then after that it was still unmountable.
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An error occurred while restoring the disk to a single partition."
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Hey guys,
I upgraded my macbook pro to Lion last week and now I can't install Windows on my computer with Bootcamp. I can still partition through Bootcamp assistant, and in Finder it shows the Bootcamp device. However, when I try to install Windows by holding Option during startup, the Bootcamp disk is not showing up. There are only three options: Mac, Recovery, and Windows (disk). If I choose the Windows disk, it tells me there's no bootable device.
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Solved.
I just installed clean BOOTCAMP using Bootcamp Assiastent, that causes windows data loss.
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get iPartition and mark bootcamp partition "show in windows" option.
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            550.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
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sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   2 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 1467197439] <Unknown ID>
*2: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1467197440 - 486326272] HPFS/QNX/AUX
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=1000204886016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953525168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1953525167
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640 1074902336      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1075311976     1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
1076581512   390615928
1467197440   486326272      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1953523712        1423
1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
1953525167           1         Sec GPT header
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EDIT (forgot TestDisk):
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/disk0 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - 1953525168 sectors (RO)
Current partition structure:
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
1 P EFI System                    40     409639     409600 [EFI System Partitio
2 P Mac HFS                   409640 1075311975 1074902336 [Macintosh HD]
3 P Mac Boot              1075311976 1076581511    1269536 [Recovery HD]
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 255 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 63 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
4 P MS Data               1467197440 1953523711 486326272 [BOOTCAMP]

How large should i make my bootcamp partition for Windows to use basic autodesk programs like Revit and Autocad?

I dont think ill be using windows for much more than revit and autocad (i use autocad on the mac side, but just in case), but i want to make sure I am not going to have a problem in the future.
I am a grad student in interior design, and have access to a windows computer (if i absolutely need it).
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I have a 1TB drive in my iMac and set aside 160GB for the Win7/64 partition, and I'm not running anything as demanding as CAD programs. I've not used AutoCad personally but the drafters I worked with did, and always got the the fastest computers with the biggest hard drives. A development engineer was always overjoyed to get a computer the drafters cast off!
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I move a USB drive between my iMac and PCs all the time, but this was the first time I tried it on a recently-purchased Macbook.
Can the Mac still read the drive?
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What were you burning? Was it a disc copy or just some data?
Same folder I was trying to transfer on the USB drive. It was just some images and text files.
Except for the possibility that you were attempting to copy a disc with some strange bad sector copy protection scheme, you should be able to burn discs that the PC will read.
No, it wasn't a disc copy.
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Michael
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Hello everybody,
I've just recently bought a new MacBook Pro, I'm not very familirar with Macintosh. I installed windows 7 using bootcamp but the problem is that I just can see one partition in which I've installed windows.
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1: Those instructions at the link are severely outdated. Don't use them.
2: Apple expects users to have one Bootcamp partition, one OS X Lion partition and that's it and that's all they are going to hold your hand on.
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Since your new to Mac, you should really hold onto Apple's hand and use either a external drive formatted either FAT32(MSDOS) for under 4 GB files sizes (preferred) or exFAT for over 4GB files (not preferred but necessary) in Apple's Disk Utility.
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There is a security issue allowing Windows to read HFS, but that should do transferring the small amount of files your going to be using in both operating systems.
OS X, like Windows, is going to expect files to be in each respective User folders of Music, Pictures and so forth when you open save dialog boxes, open finder windows, open certain programs and so forth. So ideally it's not best to share a partition or really have the user data on another partition at all.
I know it's a practice on Windows machines to partition data away from boot/programs to reduce defragmentation, on OS X it's not as necessary (except in special cases) as all 2GB sized files and below are written to one space on the drive (if there is room of course)
Windows 7 still needs to be defragged, however it can be schedualed and you can watch the progress. If you install WIndows, perform all the updates, then install programs, then finally any files you do keep there, it should stay optimized for a quite awhile. Ditton on the OS X side.
If your going to sharing a grreat quantity of files between the two OS's, use a external drive.
Apple installs a hybrid MBR in the Bootcamp partition for Windows to use to interact with the GUID partition table (GPT) it uses.

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