partition. how to

[westcliffe]

i wud like to partition my hard disk,can anyone recommend a easy way for a senior silver surfer,to me its rather frightening

[pauln90]

Why do you want to partition it ?

Ideally this should be done on a clean hard drive when installing the operating system.
I live quite happily with just one partition on my hard drive.I just back up externally important documents just in case though

[Mac70]

It depends on what you plan to do with your harddrive. If you plan to dual-boot with Linux then most distros come with G-Parted but otherwise youd need something like Partition Magic which isnt free and the trial version, I think is not fully functional.