Startup Disk in Mac OS 10.6.1

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He instalado windows vista home,en mi Imac24 con boot camp y funciona bien pero cuando estoy en Snow Leopard 10.6.1 me voy a preferencias del sistema(Discos de Arranque) y solo me aparece el disco de Mac os 10.6.1, el de windows vista no aparece.
Porque puede ser.
Gracias
Traduccion con Google:
I installed windows vista home, in my Imac24 with boot camp and it works fine but when I'm in Snow Leopard 10.6.1 I go to System Preferences (Startup Disk) and it shows only the Mac OS 10.6.1 disk, that of Windows Vista does not appear.
Because it can be.
Thanks

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
this usually happens when you have installed Paragons NTFS for OSX or NTFS-3G for write support to the Windows partition from Mac OSX.
Have a look at rEFIt http://refit.sourceforge.net/ for a Boot-Menu.
Regards
Stefan

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