Small issue with my XPS M1330

Hi All ..
I just bought the XPS M1330, it has 2 partitions, 1 is the C drive which is 120 GB sized and the other is the D drive which is the recovery drive.

My question is, if i want to make another partition is it possible ?
some friend told me that if i did then the recovery drive will be corrupted, is that true ??

P.S:
Windows Vista installed

 

You can make a partition off the C: drive with no problems.

 

Great !
How ?!?

 

Actually it has four partitions, of which two are the NTFS partitions you describe. There are also Utility and MediaDirect partitions. You can see the partitions by going to Adminstrative Tools /Computer Management / Disk Management (or something like that).

The MediaDirect partition is particularly nasty; it prevents the main partition from being expanded.

Anyway four standard partitions is the limit...to get more you have to make an extended partition with logical partitions inside it.

 

Thanks but can you explain more ?
i mean if its possible how can i do that ?

 

Google...?

Sorry, I have no desire to tell anyone in a post how to repartition their hard disk, it's like instructing people over the phone to remove their own appendix. In short, go to Disk Management as instructed above. You will,of course, lose all your data.

 

Lol...well, I do have this pain in my appendix...help, pretty please?

 

Go to sourceforge.net and look for gparted.
It's a Linux based partition editor and it's much more robust than what Windows has to offer.
I used it to create logical partitions to bypass the 4 primary partitions limit to dual boot my machine.