Partitioning

How do you partition a drive in XP? If you partition does it mean it formats it first?

forgot to add, if you are in windows xp and want to partition/format a drive, right click on "my computer" then click on manage and select disk management from the left panel and on the empty disk, right click on it an create new partition, give it a size and a name if you want, the only thing is that with windows you can only format using fat32 (not recommended but mostly used for 4gb and bellow pendrives) and ntfs. also, don't mess with your windows partition unless you really know what you are doing.