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How to create Hard drive partitions in my new HP laptop?

I got a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 2106tx.. It har got a total of 320GB HDD. Now 280GB is the C drive .. the second partition 30GB is the D drive which is the recovery drive.. and the third one is E drive which has some HP utilities...Now I dnt want the whole memory concentrated in the

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1. Leave it alone period.
2. don't screw with it leave it alone
3. Recovery space only can be seen while formatting, it would be around 10gb. You leave it. you can't see in os
4. I think your question got truncated, but I'll do the best I can. The only way I ever repartition disks is by using a Linux CD (Ubuntu is my favorite, www.ubuntu.com), where you boot the CD, run GParted Disk Partitioner (System->Administration menu), and create space. I'm sure there are other ways, I just don't know any. Now, it sounds like you've got three disk paritions already, so this is going to be interesting. A hard disk can only have a maximum of four (4) "Primary Partitions", which are partitions just there on the disk. If you want to have more, you can replace one of these primary partitions with a so-called "Extended" partition and create up to four "Logical Partitions" inside of it. Now, I don't suggest moving your paritions around; moving data from one place on a disk to another is a long and arduous process, so I'd leave the ones at the end be. I'd make the 280GB drive shorter and add the extra partition(s) at the end of it. This works out fine so long as you don't make the partition shorter than the location of the last bit of data on the Windows partition. (Note: this is NOT the same as the overall disk space; windows tends to space out its files in NTFS to make the partition look like Swiss cheese. Use the defrag utility to see what it looks like.) Of course, if it's a new laptop, you shouldn't run into any troubles like this. EDIT: The above posters advise you not to remove the HP partitions already there. I agree with them. Recovery partitions have saved my butt so many times... Especially since most computers don't even ship with CD's anymore!