I want to make recovery partition on my new macbook pro without loosing my data

i want to make recovery partition on my new macbook pro without loosing my data

You already have one. Hold command r keys and boot the machine into it to see.
If your meaning you want another partition to boot your machine normally, like a cloned OS X partition, you can do that this way.
1: Make sure you have less than 50% of your boot OS X partition filled with data, this can be done looking at Activity Monior.
2: Another thing, all the OS X data needs to be on the top part of the drive, to make room at the bottom for the second 50% paritition. You can't always tell this easily but you'll find out shortly.
3: Use Apple's BootCamp software and create the second 50% partition on the drive and then exit it without proceeding further. If it fails or is not large enough, then the #2 above problem is evident and you need to clone and reverse clone from a external drive to shift all the data back up.
BootCamp: "This disc can not be partitioned/impossible to move files."
4: If you have a second 50% partition on the drive, next head to Disk Utility and select the second partition and change it's format to OS X Extended Journaled and the name to Macintosh HD 2 (name optional of course)
5: Next download Carbon Copy Cloner and clone the first partition to the second, make sure it's a PURE CLONE in preferences as the default is to save the states between updates.
6: Reboot the machine holding the option/alt key down, Startup Manager launches and your second boot partition is there.
This method provides a second bootable clone while portable for excellent sofware protection, however if the drive fails both parititions are lost, so external clones on extra hardware are of course needed also.

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