Partitioning made easy?

[languagelab]

I'm a newbie and am trying to switch over to Linux from XP. I have a Fedora Core distro and went to install it but it didn't work. In some forum or other they told me I need to repartition my computer and it was suggested that I use PartitionMagic 8.0. I downloaded it and went through its program, hit <apply> and it seemed to have repartitioned (giving me about half the memory for Linux and half for XP). But it didn't save, and when I rebooted BootMagic didn't come up as it was supposed to. I guess it is supposed to boot to BootMagic instead of going to the O/S. What went wrong? Am I missing a step?

Note: I don't care about keeping Windows around on my computer. I'm just looking for an easy way to partition my hard drive in order to give Linux the space it needs to run as my operating system. The PartitionMagic seems pretty straight forward; if you can tell what's going on with it, let me know, or inform me as to another way to repartition my hard drive via Windows or other software. Any help or advice is much appreciated. Thanks.

[soulestream]

if you dont care about windows being on there, then just tell Fedora to use the entire disk and it will kill windows partitions for you

if you want to dual boot, then XP (home and pro I think) you can just right click on my computer and select "manage" and XP has its own partitioning tool. just leave it "unformatted", then tell fedora to install in unpartitioned space

soule