Windows 7 on Bootcamp not Recognizable in Startup Disk AND not bootable?

Hi, I'm new here. Anyways, can someone help me here; I had a bootcamp partition set at 5GB for Windows XP. I recently formatted, expanded to 32GB, and installed Windows 7 on that partition. The installation went fine without problems, and I installed the drivers from my Snow Leopard install disk, again, everything is fine. then I booted into Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.5) without problem. What I used to do with my Windows XP install, is go to System Preferences > Startup Disk > and selected BOOTCAMP, and hit restart; and everything would boot fine, and when I was done in Windows I selected Macintosh HD and my main boot device and restarted. But now, with my Windows 7 install, I can do that. It won't come up in Startup Disk and in Disk Utility I can't mount it. When I do try to mount it, the button presses and does nothing. I could really use some help here, I need to get that Windows up and running for some applications needed for school.

Depends what you used to change the size.
Would have been better probably to just backup (if you haven't already) and just do a full erase and restore for OS X and then start over.
And yes, some find Windows only shows in the startup (Boot Camp) control panel in Windows.
Resizing / expanding and shrinking from Windows causes partition for Windows to disappear even from Finder.
Windows still works. You can still OPTION boot and change the default while in Windows. Otherwise, go back to scratch and start over.
And 32GB really is the minimum.

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