bootcamp not showing up as option parallels 7

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  1. JohnHurley

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    New macbook pro 13 8 gb ram 750 gb harddrive running Lion 10.7.1.

    I have a full bootcamp partition 350 gb running windows 7 pro.

    Purchased parallels 6 for mac today from office max now doing the wait for registration key for 7 dance. Installed 7 build 7.0.14920 using a trial registration key. I did not ever install parallels 6.

    Now running parallels 7 it does not show me my bootcamp when trying New virtual machine. Also the check for updates option is greyed out and it wants me to purchase.

    Should I be worried? Is this some anomaly that will be fixed once I get my real license key for 7?

    My bootcamp partition is running just peachy ... and I have lots of backups from both time machine and from windows backup.

    I guess I could uninstall 7 and go back and see if my bootcamp shows up fine under 6?

    Are there other diagnostics I should do right now?

    Thanks in advance!

    More info. This system is a reinstall of Lion 10.7.1 on a bigger hard drive. Probably not relevant but I chose a different name for the hard drive than the default ( was it Lion HD or Mac HD before ? ) not it is tasha.
    *** Not sure if relevant but this system was done reinstalling OS lion on top of a new bigger hard drive. I renamed the hard drive from the default ...
    /dev/disk0
    #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
    0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk0
    1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
    2: Apple_HFS tasha 399.0 GB disk0s2
    3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
    4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 350.3 GB disk0s4
     
    Last edited: Sep 5, 2011

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