Vista not showing up in startup disc pref?

I have Vista 64bit Business installed, via a bootcamp partition on a second internal drive on my 8 Core Mac Pro, which is running 10.6.2. Occasionlly I will use VMware fusion running off my bootcamp partition, but yesterday when I tried this, vmware said that it couldn't find the specified files. I could see the hard drive on my destop but when I went into the prefs > startup disk I did not see Windows OS? Normally it is there. If I restart my computer and hold down the option key I can then select the Windows partition. I am assuming that my issues with vmware are related to the windows partition not showing up in my startup disk prefs. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks,
Steve

Obviously you are not using a PowerPC G5.... and you didn't add an NTFS driver like that in Paragon or MacFUSE etc to write to NTFS drives.
Normally, for me, Windows is not shown... I make changes in Windows. And you didn't move the drive or partition at all.
I'd boot from Windows DVD and do system repair, also next time in Vista (natively) have it do a full check disk.

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