how to parition a hdd

[Suki243]

i am about to reformatt my computer and i wanted to partition the hdd, how can i do it? its a 80 gig seagate serial ata
Please respond asap i am currently backing up my files so as soon as i am done i am going to look here then reformatt

 

[MontyAC]

If you have WinXP, just put in the cd and you'll see the format and partition options.

 

[Michael Shaw]

Windows 2000 Professional also allows you create a partition size when you install it. I've never used it since I have no problem running everything on one drive...

 

[Pyreflame]

Since you're going to wipe the whole thing out, you can use Seagate's boot disk utility to format the drive. You can download the program from their website, it will create a bootable floppy disk, just boot from that and there'll be an option to format your drive and set partitions. IIRC, the program makes a two disk set,
so you'll need two floppies. Go here and download the "Discwizard Started Edition" version:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html

Or what they said.