Create 3rd partition after installing Windows 7 on Macbook Pro (Lion preinstalled)?

Hi, currently I'm having 2 partition: Macintosh HD - Lion (~680GB) and Bootcamp - Windows 7 (~60GB). Now I want to take ~600GB from the 1st partition to create a FAT32 data storage. My question is: is it possible to do so without reinstalling any OS?

Do not add a partition after BootCamp. BootCamp manipulates the boot-sector of a Mac disk to allow dual-booting. But manually adding a third partition will break that tenuous multi-boot balance.
Many threads posted by people who need to restore OSX from a backup and lose their BootCamp data due to system instability attest to the tourble you can cause.
Buy an external drive and use that for FAT32 (or EXFAT to allow files larger than 4 GB) storage.

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1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the
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Your last post was mostly right... It IS a bad idea to go that route!
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groundnuty wrote:
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