Bootcamp XP on snowleopard to mountain lion

I am intending to upgrade my OSX from 10.6 to 10.8. I am running window XP on bootcamp as well. As XP is not supported on 10.8, may I know what will happen to it after the upgrade to 10.8? Will it be usable? Or do I need to remove it before the OSX upgrade?
Thanks!

Be sure you have the Boot Camp partition backed up on an external drive using Winclone or Paragon HDM Suite.
The creation of the recovery partition has on occasion altered the order of the Boot Camp partition, rendering it inoperable.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hdm-personal/
https://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/

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    -d      Display debugging information.  This option may provide useful information when fsck_hfs cannot repair a damaged file system.
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