Creation of new Partitions of hard drive

I just bought HP Probook s 4530 with 500 GB HARD drive. The problem is that this machine has only a single partition and two partitions of system. The only partition is more than 480 GB and it has Windows installed on it.

Now, I want to create multiple partitions without harming the windows partition. What is the safest way to resize the windows partition. Second, if I create the partitions I still would be able to use the recovery options?

How can I manage my HD space safely without losing the recovery options or make my warranty null.

Your recovery feature does work as expected after changing the partitions. Burn your DVD recovery set before changing the hard drive.

http://h30434.www3.HP.com/T5/other-notebook-PC-questions/how-to-REPARTITION-HDD-of-HP-notebook-with-pre-loaded-Windows-7/TD-p/742019

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