Loading Windows 7 on new hard drive

I have a Mac Book and I just upgraded to a 500gb hard drive and restored it from Time Machine and everything is working great.  On the old original drive I was able to use Boot Camp and partition the drive to run Windows 7 Ultimate and it worked fine.  Today I used Boot Camp to partition, and it asked for 32-bit software (I have 32 & 64 disks).  I did so and it started up, but got amessage,  “that windows must be installed to a partition formatted as a NTFS” Did I miss a step and can anyone advise on what I need to do?

In Boot Camp Assistant:
See the checkbox: Doownload the latest Windows support software from Apple. You can download the drivers to a USB flash drive or USB drive connected to your computer. Format the USB device in Disk Utility:
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
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3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the partition scheme to MBR. Set the format type to MSDOS (FAT). Click on the Options button, then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.

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