IMac disk utility not reading any FAT32/NTFS related partitions/CD/flash drives

Hi everyone!
I'm trying to access my drives and later on install bootcamp and windows on my iMac. At moment I can only start the iMac in safe mode (long story, if interested check out iMac 27" (late 2009), freezing - List of solutions tried). Any steps taken so far to read and format other drives has been in Safe Mode.
Problems:
- any formats except Mac OS X extended gets greyed out in Disk Utility.
- Not able to read/mount flash drives, external drives or CD's with any other formats.
Solutions tried:
- Tried to format using OSX on current iMac, MBP and PC and no change or luck.
- Tried on other machines and it works great. So it's related to my iMac.
- Disk Utility try to Mount drive/partition - getting error "The disk "BOOTCAMP" could not be mounted"
- Installed Paragon NTFS but no difference.
- Disk Utility no disk error reported
Searched on internet and forums for a solution w/o any luck. Haven't found anyone with similar problems or I'm using wrong keywords. Haven't found any Knowledge Base about other formats is disabled in Safe Mode state so it can't be that either. Below is a picture that shows any other partitions than mac is greyed out.
Any suggestions or anyone encounter with this wierd behavior?

Paragon NTFS MAC ÔS X is ideal for using NTFS insideOS X
You want Bootcamp forum
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