No win7 disk appeared in Startup Disk

I am using a MacPro3,1 and have just installed Lion on the only 500G HD. I created a partition of space around 50G and, by using Bootcamp Assistant, I installed a win7 SP1 system successfully with the downloaded windows driver. When the computer restarted, I booted back to Lion. The Startup Disk in System Preference did not show any of the installed win7. I tried several times in the last few days. Can anyone help me to get this thru?

Thanks! Actually I have another internal drives too but I just wanna check if Lion works well on my machine.
Option key did not show any win7 startup AFTER I rebooted to Lion.
I booted from windows7 DVD but no use.
I have run all the downloaded drivers but how do I save the settings?
How much would you recommend to make the partition for win7 in norm?
Again, thanks The hatter!

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Although I am an HP Employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP.
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