New PC on its way - any tips on setup?

HiI have eventually managed to gather enough cash together and have ordered a new PC which should be with me on Monday :-AMD Athlon 64 3800+Windows XP HomenForce Ultra 4 939 pin MoboiGb DDR 3200 RAM200gb SATA7200rpm Hard Drive with 8mb Cache256Mb DDR ATI Radeon X800 pro PCI ExpressI would appreciate any advice on what, if anything, I should do to the setup of the PC before loading FS2004 and a couple of other addons onto the new machine.I have seen a few posts re partitioning hard drives but I am not sure a) if i need to do this and :( how i actually go about doing this.Any tips would be welcomed.ThanksGraeme