Bootcamp, Bootcamp doesn't recognize Windows 7 partition

Over my Max OS X (10.6.8), bootcamp doesn't recognize Windows 7 partition until few days. Windows 7 ever work on my iMac with bootcamp. Now the only way to boot on Windows 7 is to start with Setup CD of Windows 7 but unfortunately not with boocamp over my iMac.
Please i need your help
Laurent
Poor french guy !!

Answer this: do you have NTFS for OS X installed?
That is the only time normally though not always that Windows won't show in
System Preferences: Startup Disk: control panel
> i have upgrade Bootcamp over Win7, i upgrade too Win7
Boot Camp is only Apple drivers.
So other than language, you are running Windows natively. Only.
You don't upgrade Boot Camp. You probably do have Windows updates of course.

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Please i need your help
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Poor french guy !!

You should read the Boot Camp Installation Guide.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
And you should visit the Boot Camp forum. You posted in the Snow Leopard forum. https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

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sounds like Upgrade edition off hand

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I've search half a day for answers in already existing threads but haven't found a solution, so now I dare ask this question.
I have a Imac Mac OSX 10.7.5
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/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         415.4 GB   disk0s2
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   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *415.0 GB   disk1
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                                 01D66AE9-5432-421F-9E0F-C39EF1C852E8
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk2
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   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *16.0 GB    disk2
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CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group C36D68E8-EFC1-4B1B-BB7B-934B4CFC2C0D
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
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    Size:         415352614912 B (415.4 GB)
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