Partitioning your hard drive may sound like an exercise in geekery, but it’s actually very simple and there are some really practical reasons you might want to partition a drive. First and foremost, you can create multiple virtual hard drives to store and organize your files or even to hold multiple operating systems on the same computer. For example, you could run Windows 7 and Ubuntu side by side on the same physical machine. Best of all, it's a

free partiton creator and manager

.