I want to get Windows 7. Just for the **** of it. I don't want to do dual boot as that's a lot of work and my hard drive already has 2 partitions on it.

Basically, what I want to do is just put Windows 7 in place of XP, which I'm pretty sure I can do.

My hard drive has 2 partitions. One is C:, which is where Windows XP is installed. The other is D:, which has all my important data (including games). So basically I already backed my system up. However, what I want to know is if I can even do this without consequence. If I were to just clear out the C: partition and install Windows 7 on it, would I still be able to access the D: partition without any issues? Or would I have to reformat that partition to so Windows 7 could interact with it? I have reinstalled Windows XP on C: before without having to do anything to D:, but that's probably because I made both partitions when installing XP the first time...


Anyway, any info would be appreciated.

I think the answer is Yes!

i would backup your data to an external source first though just in case

you can do it without any problem. im running both xp and 7 together. when you install 7 it detects the xp and make bootloader. when machine boots up first it ask to boot from what OS.