Partitioning and Dual Boot computing is a powerful tool. The beginner should learn and understand the use of partitioning a hard disk drive. Partitioning a Hard drive means that you will virtually split your hard disk into separate storage areas. You can easily divide your hard drive into separate partitions. In fact, your hard drive was built to handle this configuration and requires no effort from you to use it.
Microsoft Windows Disk Management is where you will find a Graphical User Interface where you can modify your partition. In dual boot, you need to prepare your hard disk with a partition that is unallocated. Once you have an open space, you can then format that space to anything you want.
Fat32 is a popular format used for universal access from multiple operating systems. Windows uses NTFS. Linux uses ext4. When installing Linux I recommend creating an unallocated space. Let the Operating system format the drive during the instillation.

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