Snow Leopard, boot camp partition not mounting.

Hi all,
I have a system that was leopard, and I installed Bootcamp with Windows 7 64bit. Was working well until I upgraded to Snow Leopard.
The Bootcamp partition is not being seen in Snow Leopard. I can, however, hold down the option key on the Mac and select the window 7 partition to boot from.
I have looked through the forums but haven't really seen this issue addressed, or if It was, then I didn't see it (so sorry.)
Please any advise or help would be great.
John

Is it on the same drive?
On Mac Pro, I would not, I'd keep them separate.
With ANY OS update/upgrade (10.5. -> 10.6) I ALWAYS reformat and initialize the drives first before installing - there are changes to partition tables, and while some systems are fine, you should have backups for both Windows and Mac OS before you began, too.
Other than repairing Mac OS, and checking that you aren't using NTFS driver, and everything is up to date and SL-compliant... and you can set the default in 7 to reboot back into 7 or OS X.
4-core... does that mean 2006? or 2009?

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500 GB hard drive
4 GB DDR2 RAM

Hi,
Windows 7 needs its system to be installed on a NTFS formatted partition.
There 's no way to use FAT32 as file system for this.
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Regards
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Hi LonerT, I too have lost the ability to boot into windows/bootcamp - only Mac & recovery are displayed at startup.
Below are my results for the same set of instructions.
What does it indicate?
Thank you!
Hils-MacBook-Pro-2:~ king_hil$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            175.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         50.0 GB    disk0s4
Hils-MacBook-Pro-2:~ king_hil$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
Hils-MacBook-Pro-2:~ king_hil$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=251000193024; sectorsize=512; blocks=490234752
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 490234751
      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 341796872      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
342206512    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
343476048   49103024
392579072   97654784      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856        863
490234719         32         Sec GPT table
490234751          1         Sec GPT header
Hils-MacBook-Pro-2:~ king_hil$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 341796872] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 342206512 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 392579072 -   97654784] Win95 FAT32L
I added:
Hils-MacBook-Pro-2:~ king_hil$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 341796872] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 342206512 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 392579072 -   97654784] Win95 FAT32L
Hils-MacBook-Pro-2:~ king_hil$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 be b7 90 5b dc 2d 75 3f bc f2 56 7b d7 ee 87 19 |...[.-u?..V{....|
00000010 b9 cd de 96 1f af c7 a9 ef 83 eb 21 fa 90 7e a2 |...........!..~.|
00000020 31 1a 9c e9 c3 ea c9 78 78 3f 02 1f 31 0f 54 90 |1......xx?..1.T.|
00000030 26 4d d9 a3 e1 a9 7f f4 f7 0f 65 e6 1e 6b fb c1 |&M........e..k..|
00000040 a6 13 bf 5e 52 89 ef 07 a5 d8 4b 32 86 93 94 09 |...^R.....K2....|
00000050 db 49 d6 84 6f 7f 51 54 fc a4 70 22 7b a2 78 a2 |.I..o.QT..p"{.x.|
00000060 76 52 b3 1f 62 68 62 72 d2 b6 17 7e be 8b d7 ff |vR..bhbr...~....|
00000070 c5 df 3b 5a f8 4b 71 2f 38 c3 4e 36 6f e6 cb f7 |..;Z.Kq/8.N6o...|
00000080 15 f2 8a 7f a5 bd e5 bd a3 aa 79 b5 bc 3a 5e 03 |..........y..:^.|
00000090 af f1 d7 c2 db 3e 1d 4e df a9 ef 14 d7 94 e0 74 |.....>.N.......t|
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OK I don't know where to post this. I couldn't find an appropriate forum under Boot Camp (nothing for display). Apologies if this is the wrong forum.
I am attempting to run Windows 7 using Boot Camp. Here is the behavior:
Booting Windows 7 without any monitor plugged in works fine.
Booting with an external monitor plugged in, I get the display on the external monitor. Now when I unplug the external monitor, the LCD display backlight is off and is completely dim. I had to reboot it in order for the LCD display to work again.
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Ok all, I am at my wits end here. I installed XP in boot camp and now I've got a lovely "Untitled" partition sitting on my OS X desktop. I know this can be hidden, but I don't want to hide it. I don't want OS X to mount it at all. I have tried fstab and fstab.hd but it looks like all support for these has been removed in a recent update. So HOW do I do stop automount on a local volume? As far as I can tell it is impossible to control how your computer mounts local volumes, but I am hoping I'm wrong, because that would be utterly ridiculous on Apple's part.

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It is a PITA.
Install a 32-bit version, as a mini-OS to bootstrap yourself into 64-bit;
Or, modify the DVD you will burn by editing the ISO, which can be done with VirtualBox etc.
I did it multiple times and posted a long rambling thread over on Boot Camp AD.
It is weird.
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As usually, there are multiple ways to do anything.
Pull Mac drive and system, install a RAW drive or format as MBR and MSDOS, you'll want 3-4 partitions or multiple drives.
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8GB for editing the ISO and DVD or to run the installer from. This is a very fast way to do any install. Same idea works with Mac OS and restoring the DVD to disk.
When you burn Win7 DVD, do so at slow/reduced speeds.
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Whatever you want for x64.
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