Existing Windows XP Bootcamp in Mountain Lion?

Hi all,
Recently I upgraded to OS X 10.8 from Snow Leopard and am not able to access my Bootcamp partition with Windows XP.
However, according to system specs (http://www.apple.com/osx/specs) existing partitions should still work.
Anyone who was lucky with that?
Thanks,
Eugene

I was actually running XP Bootcamp from under Parallels 7, but now can't.
I wanted to skip another installation of XP and software, but probably will have to do it. But before I do, I want to check if anyone could actually use existing XP installation in ML.
Thanks for your advice.

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