After Lion upgrade Windows partition won't mount

I have been running a partition for Windows, originally set up with Bootcamp and Windows SP using Parallels, for several years and generations of OS - Leopard and Snow Leopard without trouble. I just upgraded to Lion and now my Windows partition won't mount. I can see it in Disk Utility, but it is greyed out.
I have done several searches without finding a solution. There seems to be all sorts of advice. If I need to upgrade to Windows 7, fine. But how can I get the partition to mount? Does it have to do with Lion writing a recovery partition that breaks the partitioning I had? Is it an NTFS issue, whatever that is?
I would appreciate someone giving me some simple detailed steps to get my partition to mount, since I know nothing about Windows.
If I have to wipe the partition, buy Windows 7 and install it, OK. But I don't want to wipe the whole drive and my Mac side. Does Lion even need Bootcamp anymore? You can see I'm totally confused. I just need to get my Windows partition back and running through Parallels.
Thanks.

Never a good idea to go for years with the same drive and new OS generations and not reformat to implement new changes in partitioning.
ALWAYS clone your system(s) before an upgrade.
Installing Lion on an external hard drive would have saved you.
Windows is now +1 partition ID.
Windows 8 RC will be out in a couple weeks for public for free.
Asked on Parallels community....
Do you have latest Lion version of Parallels?
Try editing BCD with Windows DVD/CD.
No it is not an NTFS issue.
Lion added a new recovery partition that bumped Windows from #N to N + 1 is all.
Apple's GPT changed a number of times since 10.5.x too.
Bad sectors that occur on a drive can't be mapped out if they are part of the hidden partitions or without losing data (usually) and Lion uses and insures that features that were 'optional' or "for future use" were implemented and changed.
Windows SP sounds like Windows 7 SP1 or in your case I guess XP SP3 but isn't clear until you get to "upgrade to Wiindows 7" and yes I would upgrade to Windows 8 RC (free) or 7 64-bit System Builder ($99).

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Hi,
I just used Boot Camp to install Windows. I had Windows XP installed on my MacBook Pro awhile ago, but after I got it back from a hard drive repair I didn't put Windows back on. I recently downloaded the Windows 7 RC from Microsoft's site and used boot camp to install it. The install seemed to go fine, and I was in Windows setting up stuff for awhile. When I booted back into OS X, my Windows partition would not show up on the desktop, and would not appear in the Startup Disk preference. In Disk Utility, it shows up as grayed out with the generic name "disk0s3". When you try to mount it from there, it gives the error "The disk "disk0s3" could not be mounted. Try running First Aid on the disk and then retry mounting." Since I formatted it as NTFS (no other choice for Windows 7), I can't do a verify or repair on the disk.
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Adam

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