How do I partition part of my HDD?

[Drake5]

I have a 500GB HDD and I want to partition about 100GB of it as I plan to format and I only have the one HDD. I want to backup my games on the partition and then copy them back over once the format is done.

Is it possible to do that? If so do I need to use an application or can it be done through windows?

Cheers

 

[Drake5]

That was easier than I thought, thanks guys.

So my new petition is on volume D. That means that on the format screen I format everything except volume D?

Cheers

 

[Drake5]

Seriously, buy a second hard drive.

You should have at least two. Unless you really don't care about any of your data.

To be honest I don't. I only have games on my HDD. However I will be getting an SSD soon so I can then make the 500GB purely storage.