Windows 7 Problem Bootcamp

Ok so I have a 2009 27" IMac. I already had a OEM copy of Win 7 partitioned and running perfectly fine for months. Recently I was sent a message from Apple about needed to bring comp in to get a possible faulty HD swaped out. I bought a Time Capsule first to back everything up and had the comp "fixed". Upon returning I had it reset everything back to normal. I just got around to actually needing to go into the win7 area so restarted and such. There was no longer a Windows option but a "backup" which I tried clicking on and nothing happened.
Ok I figured no biggie I will just reset everything with a reinstall. I put the Win7 disk in and started bootcamp. Bootcamp said I needed to put certain apple files somewhere so I chose my HD. I set the partition size and hit next. I was shown 4 partitions on my computer but only the last one was the size I set and was free. It also said that that same one was unable to be used as it wasn't set to FAT. WTH! Ok so I formatted that piece and then it started the install. As I've installed Windows since it came out I know it can take awhile and such. I was there and checking on everything. I finally saw it rebooting itself and then it went dark again. This time for good. I kept checking for 2 hours and nothing was going on. The comp was still on but the fan was no longer running high or giving off tons of heat like normal. I couldn't get the screen back up no matter what I did until I did a hard reboot.
I got a screen that said Win was not shutdown correctly so I tried safe mode which then gave me a cannot continue install without reboot into normal mode. Ok rebooted and went right into black screen. I went into Mac mode and deleted the partition to try again. I then restarted and setup partiton again to which I got same issue about non FAT. Re-did whole procedure again but still even after overnight wait only a black screen.
Any ideas?!?

Did you do as I asked
Return to Boot Camp and return the disk to HFS (Remove Windows Partition). Reboot. Then make a new partition using Boot Camp. Download and print the Boot Camp directions, follow them exactly.

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During these freezes nothing will move. Not my mouse, no sound, and of course keyboard and the classic ctrlaltdelete won't make anything work.
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just that it is still confusing
Yes, it's a bit hard to follow when the version numbers seem to suggest they're for the same thing. However...
Windows 7 requires Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard and the Boot Camp 3.1 Update.
...pretty clearly spells it out that you need to do exactly that. The drivers on the SL DVD must be 3.0. Which are incomplete for Windows 7 since they were still in development for about a couple of months beyond SL's release. The 3.1 drivers you download are the finished Win 7 drivers, for those Macs supported by the 3.0 drivers on the SL DVD.
I'll ask the hosts to look into it and see if they can verify. As I mentioned earlier though, later releases of Snow Leopard may already have 3.1 drivers on the disk. That's probably what you, I and everyone else would like to verify.
Edit: The easiest way seems to be just to install Windows 7 and then whatever is on your SL disk. Once that's done, you have the Apple Software update app in Windows 7. Run that. If you need the 3.1 driver update, it will tell you. If not, the 3.1 drivers were already on your SL DVD and you're done.

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Hi and welcome to Discussions,
is that the Apple Raid card ?
The Apple Raid card does not support the installation of Windows on it http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2855
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Hello, i hope someone can help,
i have repeated this whole process 3 times already, it has taken 8 strait hours of my time and i still have had no success.
QUICK SUMMERY
To put it simply, After windows is up and running on my mac, the wireless network wont work, so i cannot download the hot fix, and the support driver files from bootcamp will not open because it says they are not "32 Valid" ?. But im using a 64bit disk.
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Keith Doherty3 wrote:
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Paragon Clone OS works and does disk-to-disk clone just like CCC you end up with two bootable drives. But does not work with your setup. It would let you clone and move your Windows install to an SSD or another disk drive though and be bootable.
During its clone process it checks for errors which is very helpful and lets you know - something CCC and others should adopt more of.
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https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
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AppleHFS - the abilty to mount and read HFS volumes can be notorious.
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From what I have read from others on here you may be out of luck. You would need the appropriate Windows drivers for the Cirrus chip in the Mac and no one has been able to successfully locate them. Apple wouldn't support this since Windows is an optional install.
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