Can't update - Leopard asks for erasing drive

I've just successfully updated iMac and wanted to do the same on my MacPro, where I have BootCamp. During installation, Leopard doesn't want to do update (Macintosh HD drive as well as others has yellow screamer mark), but wants to erase my drive and do clean install. Any idea why? I don't want to do clean install. It doesn't offer any other option that clean install.
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here is one bummer which I found: Looking at DiskUtility, I can see greyed "disk1s3" drive under my Macintosh HD.
Mount Point : Not mounted Capacity : 128,0 MB (134 217 728 Bytes)
Partition Type : Microsoft Reserved
Available : -
Owners Enabled : - Used : -
Number of Folders : - Number of Files : -
ok, sounds like I'll have to do Erase and Install, but what's going to happen to my BootCamp stuff? I have WinXP 64bit there. I believe WinXP should be fine itself, but, will I'll be able to snap it again when will intsall Leopard?
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