Hi All, newbie here, trying to install Windows 7 on my new iMac, heaps of trouble?

I get to a point where I choose the Bootcamp partition and the error message comes up: Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. Windows must be installed on a partition formatted as NTFS.....

Roger
Thanks for the response. I am having heaps of fun here. Got a printer working and printed out the Bootcamp help, which I followed slavishly to no good end. I partitioned the disk, burnt a cd with the Bootcamp data. The Windows 7 loaded as far as the choosing partition to install. The instructions say to go with the Bootcamp partition Disk 0 Partition 3....then I have just read on the next page and it says I choose "format"...so it looks like I have answered my own question. I was clicking on "Next"!!!
Bit dim on a Sunday afternoon here...
Cheers from the great South Land.
Richard

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