Can't delete or partition bootcamp

I have an imac 27" that I got back in June of 2013. It is the late 2012 model and has 16gb ram, i7, and the 3tb hybrid drive. I use windows for gaming and editing my youtube videos, but I cannot use windows. In the startup tray, my windows is missing, and also when I go into safe mode, recovery, internet recovery, or just regular disk utility I cannot partiton anything from my hdd. This is absoulutley horrible! Apple could do me not help, and people have had similar isssues, but there fixes don't work for me. In bootcamp assistant, the erase or install windows 7 section is missing. I cannot wipe my hard drive even when in recovey. This is horribe! I had a gaming pc that I sold and bought this, and although this has equivalent specs and runs games just as good or even better, I cannot game anymore! This is a huge dillema for me, because this is how I make a living.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Your hybrid (or Fusion) drive is probably where you are having problems. You need the latest version of Boot Camp Assistant, and some luck to get it fully working properly. With the Apple Fustion drive, and Boot Camp, the Boot Camp Assistant will take the disc space you want to allocate for Windows away from the Fustion drive and give you a dedicated partition on the HDD in your computer.
Anything past this point is beynd me because I don't have a Fusion drive setup to be able to tell you how to go from there.

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Hi David,
First of all thanks for your quick response and for your help logging the enhancement request,
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