Create additional partitions without endangering recovery option

I just purchased a new HP pavilion 500-307nd, it has one 2 TB harddrive. Currently it contains the recovery partition (10GB) the rest is used as the one and only primary partition. I would like to split this one partition (of almost 2TB) into three partitions: one primary containing the system and software, two for storing data only. The recovery partition will remain intact. Would this be a problem? Will I still be able to use the recovery partition if needed?
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Bart, welcome to the forum.
Here is a guide that should help you. Before you begin you should make a backup of all of your personal data. If you haven't done so, you should make the System Recovery Disks for the computer, also. This will allow you to Recover the computer if you have problems while creating the partitions.
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Disclaimer: I dont use OKR .
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