Partitioning 512GB Flash Drive-MacBook Pro

I am trying to install BootCamp on a MacBook Pro (10.9) Mavericks. I can partition the drive, but I am running into the issue where I go to install Windows 7 Pro, it doesn't see the Partitioned Drive for bootcamp. I do see it on the OS X 10.9 side.
I also tried using the disk utlities to partition the disk and the same thing......Windows can't see it. and I can see it on the OS 10.9 side.

OGELTHORPE wrote:
Finder is correct, the display is not. This is not the first time that this display has been incorrect.
I forget the way to correct the issue but try SMC and PRAM resets:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
These operations cannot hurt your MBP and if there is no success, let me know. I will try to find the answer (no guarantee though ).
Ciao.
I tried both, it didn't solve the problem. but thanks for your help.

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/dev/disk0
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         501.8 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                124.0 GB   disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data                         115.5 GB   disk0s5
   6:                 Linux Swap                         8.5 GB     disk0s6
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         249.2 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh SSD          *248.9 GB   disk2
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.3 GB     disk3
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              8.3 GB     disk3s1
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *501.5 GB   disk4
mbltccmbp:~ trevorcobb$ sudo gpt -r -v show disk0
Password:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size index contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640   980102336      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   980511976      262144      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   980774120         792
   980774912   242186240      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1222961152   225603584      5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1448564736    16582656      6 GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
1465147392        1743
1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
1465149167           1         Sec GPT header
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gpt show: disk1: mediasize=250059350016; sectorsize=512; blocks=488397168
      start       size index contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
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         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 486717952      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
487127592    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
488397128          7
488397135         32         Sec GPT table
488397167          1         Sec GPT header
mbltccmbp:~ trevorcobb$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0          geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   1 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: DA   25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 980102336] <Unknown ID>
3: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 980511976 -     262144] HFS+
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 980774912 - 242186240] HPFS/QNX/AUX
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Signature: 0xAA55
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#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 488397167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
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