Creating 2 partitions on HDD for M30-852

Does anybody knows how to partition the HDD?
The recovery disk is not offering any option for creating 2 partitions.
I understood that the BIOS is located on HDD so you have to be very carefull about this, eg not using any other WIN XP CD-ROM?
Is this true?

Thanks a lot. Hope it works.
What about BIOS located on HDD and not on the motherboard chipset?
Is this true?
This means you can not install/HDD format WINXP from a standard disk because of potential BIOS eraseure!
Regards

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Thank you all,
Isn't it too much 200G for Windows as i will on ly install VMWARE Workstation 9 for lab purposes and possibly a few softwares.
VMWARE installed on Windows will require 2 GB + 1 GB per host (i will use approximatively 15 hosts).
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See below the screenshot
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* Don't take into account the disk 1 (E) partition
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