Lion Bootcamp and Win7

I have installed Clean Lion.
In Finder are Macintosh HD and Windows HD (with Win7)
Then i opening Bootcamp, he cannot see my Windows partition, only Macintosh.
Now, i wanna reinstall win7, but i can't, because they are, but Bootcamp cant see.
Picture:
Help. And Thanks for attention.

It looks like you already have a drive formated for Windows.  If you put your windows 7 install disc in the drive and then restart the computer and hold down the option key, the windows 7 install disc should be an option in the boot menu.  This should help your problem.

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