With that said. If you are looking to run a couple of
different operating systems on your computer you should understand that it
may limit your computers performance.
If you have an older computer this can be a big deal.
However, it is not too much for newer computers.
If you just bought a new hard drive you can partition
hard drive with the software that came in the package.
All you have to do is install the new drive and use the
floppy disk that came with the drive and you should be all set and ready to
install an operating system.
If you are looking for more control over the partition
hard drive then you may want to use the fdisk command in windows. The fdisk
command will give you more control over the amount of space you can assign
to a drive.
Fdisk is a dos command but can still be used by even
the newer windows operating systems.
To run fdisk all you need to do is boot into dos and
type the word fdisk at the dos prompt and the partition hard drive fdisk
program will start to run.
There is also other software that you can buy on the
market that will allow you to partition hard drive it can be easy to
partition hard drive of a newer computer.