Hard drive partitioning?

[Parliament Funkadelic]

I want to re do my desktop completely here. I am using a MCE disc that I got for my laptop, and I want to strip my current partitions, installing Windows on its own partition with program files on another and media and downloads on another (I have 2 500GB SATAs set on RAID0).

I can't use Partition Magic because I want to erase the parition it's installed to, so if I made a bootable disc that was fully automated, would I still have the options to manually create partitions (at least 2 durring installation anyway; one for Windows itself and the other for Program Files)?

[jcarle]

What is your RAID controller?