Can't find mount point

[0098386]

Whilst not exactly a Windows problem, I'm trying to set up bootcamp, I've partitioned the HDD within the Bootcamp setup program. I restart my machine and the newly partitioned drive isn't showing up. Disk Utility can see it but cannot do anything with it. Not a format, an erase, anything. It can erase free space. So I click that for no real reason at all and I get the error message-

"A disk with a mount point is required"

Under partition type it says "Microsoft Basic Data".

Something isn't right here. I never had this problem with my other iMac (same spec, 17" C2D...).

 

[Ima!]

This is wat happened to me a few days ago. And this is how i got it to work . Follow this link.


http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=926330

 

[xUKHCx]

This is wat happened to me a few days ago. And this is how i got it to work . Follow this link.


http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=926330

Or this one https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/296484/

 

[0098386]

Well that was easy enough... in a long winded way. Booted up from the Tiger install DVD and went into Disk Utility from there, turns out you can pretty much do whatever you like in there. Formatted the drive to Fat32 and that was it.

Tricky part came to installing XP. Weirdest thing happened - it wouldn't see the USB keyboard despite being plugged in. But my BT one would work.
We're now running Vista. Urgh. But that's another story.