Will my bootcamp be okay after upgrading to Lion?

I wanted to know if the upgrade will remove or corrupt my windows bootcamp?

Hi Dustin,
I was concerned like you and googled existing problems BEFORE I updatet. I found some threads in Forums about trouble with bootcamp and windows after updating. So I called Apple Support and asked them directly and they insured me that it should not have any problems as ong as you have a legal copy of windows installed in a bootcamp. They said they have bootcamp installed on all of ther mashines they using at the hotline and they did not have any problems updating them to Lion.
But there seem to be problems with Paralles desktops....or virtuel machines.
So I was courages and did it.
I have got an MBP 2011 13" I7 8GB with windows 7 in a clean bootcamp installation running ( Harddrive is 750 GB, 500 for Windows and 250 for Mac OS) and my windows 7 is my main OS. This is why I was so nervous.
AND???? I had ABSOLUTLEY NO PROBLEMS AT ALL.
Downloaded Lion from the Appstore and updated to Lion and everything works fine. My bootcamp Windows partion is still there, works perfect like before.
Only thing the update does is changing the start up drive back to Mac OS..I have got it set on set on Windows. But you can swap it back in the windows bottcamp settings...thats it!
Just wanted to write this for other users beeing as nervous as I was...
Seem to work very well the update....and its nice....

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