Can't install windows on bootcamp partition

Hi, I got a problem hehe. When I use bootcamp to creat a partition, the windows installation does not reconize the partition. The only parition I can install on is a "patition1" with 131Go... But my hard drive is a 250Go and the parition I created is 32Go so I dont know where they took this 131Go.
Anyway I found that when I creat a big parition... suppose 100Go the Windows installation reconize it. A 100go parition is in NTFS and a 32Go one is in FAT32.
So the question is: How to creat a 32Go NTFS partition with OS X.5.1 or any way to install windows XP on my macbook.
Thanks, Pascal.

Are you sure your XP is a full install and SP2?

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