There are different tools in XP, but it's a real pain for those of us who learned the ins and outs of fdisk, since the tools work completely differently (but what would you expect from MS).
Indeed, I learned pretty well to fdisk but since XP the partitioning of disks looks like a nightmare. Some might say that the installation CD does it for you. Ok, what if I don't want to (or can't) do it that way?
Damn, this kind of things have built up my list of reasons for I wanna dump Windows. Now I'm getting used more and more to Debian and even if you "get your hands dirty" you'll eventually make it run like a dream (compared to the MS nightmare).

Long live Linus!