It's safe to install OS X Mavericks having Boot Camp with windows 7 in MacBook Pro, without losing it?

Help me please!

few minutes go I finished my Mavericks installation ( iMac 27 mid 2011, 10.7.5, i5 with 8GB DDR3 and win 7 Ultimate with last updates) . first I ordered win7 bootcamp to boot on windows and restarted to check. restart again with alt option to lion, and updated to mavericks. no problem, both maverick and win7 work as before.

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Well, at least my Windows won't boot after renaming them to *.sys.old.
But anyway, these two drivers aren't the cause, instead it's actually BootCamp.exe and/or the trackpad or keyboard drivers.
This guy had the exact same problem and the 'solution' was to disable BootCamp.exe.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10301692#10301692
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