Error while partitioning in boot camp install windows

HI there,,, I am trying to install windows to imac . I have a windows 7 disk and I go through the steps in boot camp, but once I get to choosing install windows 7. Nothing else. Just that. Some assistance would be greatly appreciated gents  

Do you have more than one internal disk in the iMac or a Fusion drive?
You may not have enough contiguous disk space.
1. Try Disk Utility Repair and then try the installation - Boot Camp: Solve partition creation problems
2. Run a SMC Reset and NVRAM Reset
     a. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support
     b. How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support
     c. Try installing BCA/Windows.
3. Backup, Erase and Restore your internal disk if the previous steps do not work.
     Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support
     OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support

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    When I try to repair the disk from my booted OSX it says something like "Your filesystem is broken and has to be repaired from the rescue partition". When I do so, the DiskUtility doesn't find any errors and says "everything seems to be fine".
    So any idea, what I can do now?
    Greets,
    Thomas
    <Edited By Host>

    Start a thread in the Mountain Lion Mac OS X forum, if you need help repairing and restoring your system. This is about setting up a Mac to run Windows natively on its own partiton.
    DU is not conclusive running verify while booted from a hard drive you want to check, it should be done from Recovery partition or another bootable disk with same version of OS X and DU.
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    Do you have an issue with Boot Camp? maybe this should be moved again.

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    jak9498 wrote:
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       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            749.3 GB   disk0s2
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       0:                            Windows7               *2.9 GB     disk1
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