Help with partitioning a hard drive

I plan to reformat my hard drive, and I want to partition it, but I don't know how.

Could someone please guide me with simple directions.

Thank you.

Don't do >>2 unless your partitioning needs are very simple.  Better to get a boot floppy with a partitioning program.  A good free one is Boot It NG.  You have to pay if you want to install it's boot loader for more than 30 days or something like that, but if you just want it for formatting and partitioning, it's perfect.  (When it asks you if you want to "install BootIt NG to the hard drive", answer NO, and it will take you directly to the menu icons)