Partition your Hard Drive using Fdisk application in dos after booting your PC via bootable CD.
Hard Disks larger that 20 GB may easily partitioned using DM 2000 in seconds.
Learn to operate Fdisk or DM2000
any person who know to work on these applications may guide you completely in just 2 - 3 hours if you know a little bit of hardware and PC knowledge
The system partition(a partition where the operating system is installed) is the active partition of the Hard Drive
system partition
System partition
There are several tutorials on YouTube which will show you exactly how to remove a partition. Removing a hard drive partition on Windows Vista will create an empty space that you can use to install a new partition. Be aware that it will also delete all data that is on the partition.
FDISK
Most of the time the boot partition and the system partition are the same partition on the drive C.
The area on the hard drive that contains a map to all the partition on the drive is called the partition table. That is what partition utilities edit when you add, delete, convert, or resize a partition.
extended partition
Most of the time the boot partition and the system partition are the same partition on the drive C.
By default C: is the active partition of the hard disk drive
active partition
Either do you install an operating system or create a partition. I don't know what do you mean with configuration of a hard drive. Is it a new one?