When you have the .iso - burn as an image with any isoburner.
Up to you how you partition . I have all my o/s on small partitions - 30gb or so. I keep data on a different partition.
Everyone does it differently.
O all right I plan on giving my C:\ partition about 50 gigs for some breathing room if I want to run additional boots of Linux in the future.
One more question before I start the install: When I am using the partitioning tool for the Windows 7 install, If I delete both the C:\ (master) and D:\ (slave) partitions, will they then join together again so I can partition it a different way?
And thanks again so much for all of the help.