No Windows startup disk in Mac OS X

Today I installed Windows 7 pro 64 with Bootcamp on My macbookPro 13 and everything works, except. .
When in Windows I can open Bootcamp configuration, choose Mac OS disk as startup disk and then restart.
When in Mac OS there is no Windows disk in configuration, just Mac HD and Network startup.
Pressing the option key during startup presents 2 disk icons and I can happily choose between Mac and Win.
How can I solve this problem?
Thanks
Rik.

So does this mean there is no fix for this? I have the exact same problem, it is very annoying. I didn't (knowingly) install any third part NTFS driver.
- If I uninstall that driver, will the problem go away?
- It is annoying trying to set up Parallels Desktop, too, because it can't see the Win bootcamp partition either.
I don't see this topic as solved, or rather the solution hasn't solved the problem - it just makes you work around it.

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