Bootcamp & lion

I have a macbook pro and I have installed on it windows XP on a partition I did that with bootcamp, the question is if I upgrade and install Lion will I lose my Windows XP and all the stuff I use to work some times. thanks

Consider clone Mac OS to anotehr drive.
Update Lion there.
then restore back.
Also, clone XP.
Backups just make sense, even upgrading OS X.
Lion only has drivers for Windows 7 but you don't need those.
And you have an older OS X DVD
Lion doesn't really affect Windows, but it does add and move partitions, so XP won't be the same partition number it was.

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