Unable to boot from windows when installed via parallels

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Hi,

I have installed windows on my macbook osx 10.6 using parallels desktop 6. I did not partition the drive. I am unable to run windows at boot time. Is there any way to fix this issue so i can boot via windows when i press option key at boot time. Thank you.
 
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15" MBP '06 2.33 C2D 4GB 10.7; 13" MBA '14 1.8 i7 8GB 10.11; 21" iMac '13 2.9 i5 8GB 10.11; 6S
You cannot boot the machine into Windows when installing it as a virtual machine, whether using Parallels or any other virtualization product. You would start Parallels after booting into OS X and then start Windows.

If you want to boot to it, then you need to use the BootCamp Assistant.
 

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