Removed bootcamp and partitioned, but stil detected as windows drive??

Hi, installed boocamp a few weeks ago on my external harddrive/macbook. I named the bootcamp partitioned drive Windows.
Today, i decided to reformat my computer. So, first i removed bootcamp using boocamp utility. Then I partitioned the drive to mac journaled extended and named it HD2. After that i did a factory reset of my mac and reinstalled mountain lion.
Upon logging in, everything seemed fine. The drive was partitioned correctly for storage on macosx, and still named HD2.
However, when i loaded the drive menu by restarting my computer and holding option. it still showed the drive as Windows!! when i clicked the drive, it even attempted to load windows, but of course never even got started and went straight to a blank screen because windows is not on there.
WHAT is going on. the drive isnt even named windows anymore. I removed bootcamp entirely and reformatted the drive. How can it be that the boot menu still lists it as Windows but when logging in, its listed as HD2?
I hoenstly think its a glitch with bootcamp. it doesnt exactly afftect anything really, because i can still use it for storage. But im OCD and it bothers me that its incorrectly listed in the bootmenu.
Can someone explain to me whats wrong and how i can fix this?

You might want to post on the Boot Camp community to get a better response.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

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