Formatted partition to NTFS, windows still doesn't install

Hi there, i just tried installing bootcamp on my new 27" imac. I have the 1tb fusion drive.
I chose around 190gb for the windows partition, mac rebooted and windows installer starts.
No drives ready to install to, I chose the new windows partition, conveniently labeled BOOTCAMP by osx. Then click drive options and format. But after that windows still doesnt want to install. No exact error, basicly just says it doesnt work, more information in the log. But i dont know where that log file should be.
Anyway, anybody here who knows what im doing wrong?
All help appreciated!
Eduard

Seems to be working now. I formatted my partition first to win32 within osx. Then it still didnt install but then the formatting to ntfs within windows worked somehow.
ktnxbye

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