Why is Windows not popping up in bootcamp anymore?

I have had bootcamp installed for almost a year now. My college set it up for me and everything has been running fine. For some reason today ( I am not sure if anything changed since the last time I used it) I went to start up my Mac OS X Version 10.6.8, 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 MacBook Pro (4GB 1333 MHz DDR3). It naturally opens with windows (usually) but this time time said "Press any key to boot from CD. Disk Error. Press any key to restart." I tired going into my bootcamp assistant but when ever i tired to get anywhere in it it said this " The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. Back up th disk and use disk utility to format it as a single mac os extended (journaled) volume. Restore your informaiton to the disk and try using boot camp assistant again."
Any Ideas? Ive researched it a little bit but I have resorted to forums. If you know how to fix it be as detailed as possible with what im supposed to do and I will try to reply as soon as possible to try and get this fixed ASAP.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
~Mike

Sounds like your GUID partition table is screwed up. The entire drive will have to be reformatted and all data will be erased, it's the most extereme proceedure unfortunatly.
The first sstep your going to have to do is recover the OS X data off to a external drive, don't use TimeMachine for this, just a storage drive and copy your users folders to it and disconnect.
Most commonly used backup methods
Drives, partitions, formatting w/Mac's + PC's
Next your going to have to install Data Rescue ($100) into OS X to read the 1's and 0's of the data in your Windows partition and copy that to another hard drive.
Next your going to need to erase and install 10.6 from the 10.6 disks.
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
Next your going to need to set up Windows again (only Windows 7 in bootcamp now)
If your not into 3D gaming or other heavy CPU use of Windows, need to run Vista or XP, you may want to opt for virtual machine software which runs Windows (all versions) in a window on OS X, it's much safer and easier as you can revert to earlier snapshots to avoid problems and malware.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?
If your not capable of doing all this, hire the services of a local Mac/PC tech.

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