Is my (Boot Camp) windows partition safe after installing OS X Lion ?

I work with a mac and i have an Windows partition only to work at home for my company (i do not keep documents of photo's there).
I want to install OS X Lion, but i am affraid that my windows partition will be gone after installing OS X Lion.
Apple support can not guarantee that my partition wil be safe.
I dont have data saved in my Windows partition. I have this partition just to work from home, so the data is not the issue.
I want to know that my partition wil be safe after installing OS X Lion, because i do not know how to make a new partition.
What can i do to keep my Boot Camp partition up and running after installing OS X Lion ?
Who can help ?

I also was concerned about the early reports of 10.7 altering the Boot Camp partition id. I took The hatters advice and used the cloning method on two different MBPs (Vista & Win 7) with no problems at all.
FYI, below I have provided the steps I used to accomplish this process.
Use Yasu and Diskwarrior to prepare the existing Mac OSX 10.6.8 HDD partition.
Clone or update by smart clone to an ext HDD with SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.
Restart from the cloned ext HDD and select it as the startup volume via System Preferences / Startup Disk.
Install 10.7 Lion on the cloned ext HDD
Install Lion 10.7.2 update on the ext HDD
Restart the OSX 10.7 ext HDD and test and adjust the preferences if needed.
When satisfied, clone the OSX 10.7 ext HDD back to the existing Mac HDD.
The Boot Camp partition will not be altered as to drive id which appeared to cause problems for a few people.
The recovery partition will be on the ext HDD and can be used for trouble shooting.
A more convenient way to have the recovery/reinstallation environment is to create a Lion install USB thumb drive.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from -a-usb-flash-drive/
http://subrosasoft.com/blog/2011/07/create-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-flash-d rive/

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I work with a mac and i have an Windows partition only to work at home for my company (i do not keep documents of foto's there).
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Apple support can not guarantee that my partition wil be safe.
Who can help ?

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It is very hard to just wreck a BC Partition. You can wipe the whole drive (Disk Utility) or you can erase it using BC Assistant (from your Mac Side). Otherwise it pretty much never happens. You say that you are un-tutored in BC, well HERE is your tutorial http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_install_windows_xp_on_my_mac_using_boot_ca mp_1.html
Lion is the most work-intensive OSX that Apple has ever released, (just in case you have not heard) so if you hate learning how stuff works, and how to fix software problems then you need to read these forums a LOT to see if Lion is a good choice for you....

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ifarber wrote:
Hi Stefan --
Could you explain how using an external HD helps? If I wanted to use an external HD for read/write access from both Snow Leopard and Windows (XP and/or 7), would it need to be in a particular format? (No partitions - this would be a new, empty drive.) If, for example, I formatted it as NTFS, could OSX write to it if it were external?
Since I don't have/use files that are bigger than 4GB in size I am able to use FAT32 as file system on the mentioned external harddisk and flash drives.
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Can i just partition my HD by using boot camp 4.0.1 without install windows?
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I am just beginning to explore the idea of installing Boot Camp & Windows on a new Intel Mac I will be buying. I've been reading a lot of references to the Windows partition...
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My other post has been deleted. I will reply to you on this post instead.
I dragged down the Macintosh HD partition via the small triangle at the bottom right hand side of it. It now looks like this:
Is it back to normal now? Can i install Windows now or do i need to do anything else?
Thanks a lot for your help!

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