Impossible to partition WD My Passport Ultra 3 TB

Hi, I recently bought a WD Passport 3 TB and formatted. When I tried to partition it in two (one for general use - MS DOT and one for Time Machine - OS Extended) format, but it won't allow me. Can someone advise me please on what do I do?

MacBook Pro OS X (10.11.3)

Backups on a single physical disk.  Data use and * especially * PC Mac data mix on the other disks.

You don't want to take the risk of your backup with the data-general mix.

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