There are a handful of really good
tools available for partitioning hard drives. Best of all, they're graphical
applications. They include Partition Magic, Partition Commander, Disk Manager,
and Partition Manager. With these tools, the task becomes quite simple. Better
yet, they come with utilities that allow you to delete, resize, merge, and copy
partitions with just a few mouse clicks. And they have utilities that let you
boot operating systems installed on any new partitions.
If you happen to use Windows 2000,
they check out the utility called Disk Management. Disk Management's main
purpose is to manage hard drives. But it's also a decent partitioning tool. You
can use Disk Management to change existing partitions on your hard drive, or
partition a new hard drive. However, the partitions you create using Disk
Management can only be used by Windows -- you can't, for example, install a new
operating system on one of those partitions.