GParted is the free Linux Gnome Partition Editor that will easily resize partitions provided you have enough drive space free on it. The common recommendation is to first backup anything important and remove excess before attempting to shrink the primary on your 320gb if the one in your sig is being talked about there.
Shrinking a partition down in order to create a second will do one thing. "Take Time"! Expanding a partition on the other hand will go fast. Shrinking involve some degree of compression explaining that.
GParted works faster and easier at both resizing and creating new partitions. Once the second partition is created you simply use the Disk Management tool found in Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage to see that formatted.
Two things are needed to get GParted namely a cd or dvd burner and a blank cd-r with the 35mb iso disk image for the platform independent version of GParted to be burned onto a bootable disk. BurnOn has a free version that generally works the best while others will use Deep Burner another freeware burning program.
The 0.3.3.0 by that exact number was the last "platform independent" release for seeing MS, Mac, OS X, and other partition types besides Linux VFat created. you can get that fast at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=173828
BurnOn is free to use from
http://www.burnworld.com/burnoncddvd/
The correct release that is platform independent will show that in the architecture column as you scroll down the download page there for the 0.3.3.0 release. That will be #16 going from top to bottom there since they haven't released a newer cross platform version since.
