Vista - XP to Win7 for a Beginner

I am very uncertain when it come to clean-installs. So I have decided that
for the moment I will keep my XP.

But that is not to say that I may have to bite the bullet at some time in
the future and install Win7. Which brings me, rather tediously, to my
questions.

Please bear with me. :-)

I have 3 partitions on my HD. Approx. C: 35GB, D: 25GB, E: 10GB.

XP SP3, AMD Sempron 1.66GHz, 1.5GB RAM.

I have tried to keep my C: just for operating. With the exception of Quicken
2000 all my other programs and files relating to them are on my D: and E:.

Should I install Win7 is it possible to install onto the C: partition or
must the entire HD be reformatted? If I do clean install Win7 onto my C:
only, will it affect the information data on D: and E:? Can I then restart my
programs from my D: as I do now?

I have had Windows from 95, upgrading over the years to XP. Will I need any
of these discs as my original is 95 and the others upgrades?

And finally! I had thought that when installing is inevitable I would
install the 32 bit as I am not into gaming or CAD etc.

Any thoughts or hand-holding will be appreciated.

This is a newsgroup for questions about Microsoft's ".NET" programming
platform. Try a newsgroup with "windows" in the name.

-Scott


"RogerC" <RogerC@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:89EE8653-26BF-485F-8680-78627C22A033@newsgroup

Thank you, Scott,

RogerC

"Scott M." wrote: