Create another partition in Windows

Hi,
I'm using Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and I installed Windows 7 using Boot Camp.
I want to create another partition for Windows for personal files.
How can I do that?
I used some Windows applications such as Acronis but it was unable to identify partitions.

NOT on the same drive!
Buy a PC. People tend to do what you want (I don't but I only use 35GB for system under Windows and about same for a Mac OS X volume).
Boot Camp and Windows on Mac is a one size fits all and only supports
GPT 200MB
EFI 128MB
Mac OS HFS+
NTFS
4 total - MBR is a subset of GPT (all drives with GPT/GUID have at least a zero size MBR protective entry).

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