Boot Camp no longer on my computer?

I use parallels with boot camp. I went to use it, and a window pops up with the following...
"Virtual machine cannot be started because of the following problem:
The Hard Disk 1 is set to use the Boot Camp while Boot Camp is not installed on this computer!"
Does anyone know why this is happening, and how to correct this issue?

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i7
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Hello all, looking for some assistance.
My HD is formatted to 400GB of OSX and 80GB of Boot Camp. I stupidly made the mistake of adding a new partition out of the large amount of free space I have on the OSX partition, to format the new partition for Windows. This made Boot Camp no longer boot. On the Disk select screen after holding Option on boot, my Boot Camp partition is not visible. I can see everything on the partition on OSX, however.
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Message was edited by: Jaygyver

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1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
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