Can't see boot camp.

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Alright, I've had this problem before. I don't know what causes it, so I'm wondering if anyone else knows. I install Windows 7 using Boot Camp Assistant, then I start the installer and from within the Windows 7 installer, I reformat the Fat32 partitioned space to NTFS because that's what Windows 7 uses. Everything installs fine and I can launch and use both OSes. However, it's kind of a luck-of-the-r=draw thing whether or not the newly partitioned Windows 7 is going to show up as what it is (NTFS Windows 7) or what Mac OS X's Disk Utility sometimes thinks it is (a grayed out 'disk0s3' with the format 'MS-DOS (FAT)' and a state of non-stop errors upon trying to repair or verify anthing).



Is there a better way of installing Windows that'll assure me read/write capabilities EVERY time from both Mac and Windows sides? I'd love to play games on Mac OS X, but it's stupid that you have to wait 5 years after every release for some Cider port.



Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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