Problems when Booting my Mac/ Partitioning for Windows 7

Hello Community,
3 months ago, i bought a MacBook Pro mid 2012-model. I was very satisfied until a really big problem occured.
The first time I recognized a boot-problem was when I restarted my Mac, a screen with the "forbidden-symbol" came up, after the Apple Logo. So I read some articles on the web and tried to restore my mac. After some trys, this was successfull after about 5h (got slow internet connection). I could also start my mac successfully, and in the boot menu, when hitting alt on the keyboard, a normal Mac partition, and a recovery partition could be seen (Before it only a Mac partition was there, no Windows and no recovery). So I started OS X successfully and looked into hard drive diagnostics and let the computer check the Hard Drive. It said that it was successfully, but after booting the second time (after successfull restore), I had the same problem again (and there was only one partition showing in the boot menu).
Finally, after 4 days of problem-solving, I managed to install windows 7 on my mac, without installing mac. Now I want to make a Mac recovery disk on windows, and use it for restoring.
So my question is:
1. What is causing the boot-problem and how can I solve that? I am sooooo desperated and just want to go back to Windows computers .
2. If there is no chance I can repair my mac, how can I create a recovery diskon Windows? (This question is less important, but i'd be REALLY thankful for any hints)
Thank you in advance!
With best regards,
David Al

Got it. Thanks for the help. Isn't there any boot disk thing that I can just stick in there that will jerk the OS sideways and give me the Mac login screen, or did the Bootcamp/partition attack just wreck everything? I don't see why I have to do an entire scrape of my totally updated and formerly working OSX just to retry a routine Bootcamp partition, which the girl at the Mac Store in Seattle here assured me has worked for them all the time. It really is a crock. Maybe I shouldn't bother trying to put Windows 7 on there at all if all these latest versions are so flimsy. I wouldn't want to have to do it all again. But it looks like I'll have to at least once. And send Apple the bill for my wasted time. I ain't feelin' the glamour.

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