Assistance regarding partitioning my lapi's hard disk

model no. - hp pavilion g6 2005ax
operating system- win 7 home basic 64bit
hello everyone,
i bought this laptop but it came with only 1 partition ie c:
i want to partition the hard disk physically so that incase i want to format and re install windows only the system c: drives gets formatted and my data in other drives is always safe and secure from getting erased. i reviewed a lot of question-answers here but most of them are regarding logical partitions which obviously will erase all data when system is restored that i dont want. i dont know the abcd of partitioning my hard drive ...please help me out.
i want to know in detail all the steps that i will have to follow starting from beginning till end. i knw nothing abt how to create back up of recovery drive, what about system drive and hp tools... please can somebody patiently explain the whole process to me...

Hi..I too had same sort of problem.Got it solved nw.
U can refer this link:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Other-Notebook-PC-Questions/How-to-repartition-HDD-of-HP-notebook-with-...

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