I bought an external 500gb external usb hardrives, please can someone help me on how to make it partitioned. Thanks a lot

Why do you want to partition it ?
External drives are designed for mass storage and further partitioning is unnecessary.

I agree with Ben.

If it's just an "organizational" thing, you can accomplish the same organization with the root level folders.

Did you get software with the drive? It should have that in there if needed. Are you trying to use it for a boot drive?

Yes, I want one drive to be a boot drive. It is true when is partition and you keep other file to a different drive it is safe because it is on the other cluster? Thanks for the answer

yes, i want one drive to be a boot drive. it is true when is partition and you keep other file to a different drive it is safe because it is on the other cluster? thanks for the answer

Not really. Since the same drive is shared it doesn't really work like that. If the drive goes bad then you stand the chance of losing everything. Doesn't matter how many partitions are on it.

If the drive came with software then you can at the very first start up.
After that you can partintion with losseing every thing.

Easy on the Caps, christ I get the feeling you're yelling at your computer right now.

This is what I get from what I've read thus far.

You have an external 500Gb HDD. You want to partition it so one partition is bootable and the other is used for data storage? Is that correct?

Also it doesn't matter how many partitions you have on a drive when the drive goes bad, you will most likely lose all data. Regardless of the amount of partitions.

Is there something wrong with the HDD you're currently using to boot off? Why do you want this External HDD to be bootable?