HT3986 boot camp is no longer showing on start up when pushing alt option.

After installing boot camp and windows 7 professional everything was waorking well changed my start up pref to Mac and usees option Alt at start up to select windows. Now however after a back up to external drive and running disk encyption. I'm no longer seeing boot camp as a bootable potion on start up. I atempted chaning to boot camp on start uo but it ask for a bootable disk. Any help??

It is beyond my understanding but others have discussed it.
http://www.lukefitzgerald.co.uk/2011/09/encrypting-both-os-x-and-boot-camp/
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/39699/how-do-i-set-up-a-mac-to-use-both -filevault-and-boot-camp
http://macs.about.com/od/LionTipsNtricks/ss/Filevault-2-Using-Disk-Encryption-Wi th-Os-X-Lion.htm

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