A guide on partition a hard drive

GTraymond2820 said:

So should i use it or not because i dont want to mess up sorry if i seem annoying :)

Use Partition Wizard if you have to or if you want to.

No reason to use it if you can do the job with Disk Management.

Only you can tell if Disk Management will do the job. You'd just have to try it.

Or take Deacon's advice and virtualize Linux.

ok can someone do some converting for me, how much would 160gb be in mb?

Figure 1000 MB equals 1 GB.

So 160 GB is 160,000 MB. Just add 3 zeroes.

Thanks alot

Ok so i created my partition, please take a look and see if i done it correctly:

It generally looks OK, but.....

I think you will have to reformat the Linux partition to another file system. It's now NTFS which is used for Microsoft operating systems. There are several Linux file systems, but I don't know which you should choose.

You should confirm that Linux can be installed in a logical partition as you now have.

Yes, it can.

You might be better leaving it as unallocated - then you can find it easily from Linux install cd.

Linux will format for you.

Better look at the instructions on your Linux Distro site as to how to do that.

I have mine set up like this:

One more thing is there a limit to how many partitions you can have because since my C drive is fairly large i am thinking it would be a good idea to split it up, is it safe or leave it as it be?