Clean install of Mavericks with backup of iTunes and iPhoto on partitioned half of HD

Recently my Macbook pro has been running into the spinning beachball more and more often. In order to figure out wether this is a hardwear or software issue I want to clean install Mavericks and whipe the drive. Only issue with this is I dont have any external hard drive for a iTunes or iPhoto backup so I was wondering if it would be possible to create a partion on my 500gb internal drive where I could store my iTunes and iPhoto libraries. Is this possible? If so how risky?
-Dan

dan2036 wrote:
so I was wondering if it would be possible to create a partion on my 500gb internal drive where I could store my iTunes and iPhoto libraries. Is this possible? If so how risky?
-Dan
Sure it's possible and it's not risky. Use Disk Utility and resize your current single partition which give you free space. Then click the '+' sign to turn that free space into a partition. Click Apply.

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