Pavilion 500-307nd: create additional partitions without endangering the recovery option

I just bought a new HP pavilion 500-307nd, it has a 2 TB hard drive. Currently, it contains the recovery partition (10 GB), the rest is used as one and only one primary partition. I would like to divide this (close to 2 TB) a partition into three partitions: a primer containing the system and software, two for the storage of data only. The recovery partition will remain intact. That would be a problem? I'll always be able to use the if necessary recovery partition?

Bart, welcome to the forum.

Here's a guide that should help you.  Before you begin you must make a backup of all your personal data.  If you have not done so, you should do the System Recovery discs for the computer, too.  This will allow you to recover the computer if you have problems creating the partitions.

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