How to repartition my disk on ProBook 6550b

Hi all,
I've got a HP probook 6550b with 160GB hard disk. It has 4 partition on the hard disk:
- System partition (~300MB)
- Windows partition (~130GB) - C: drive
- Backup partition (~15GB)
- HP tools partition (~2G) - F: drive
Now I need to create 2 new partition for my demands. All of them are primary partition, and I cant shrink the windows partition to create another.
Who can tell me the purpose of these partition? And how to re-partition my disk to have new partition?
Thanks for pay attention.

Have you:
1) Created HP recovery media? either DVD or USB
2) installed UEFI?
Are you aware that you will lose access to the HP Recovery manager by the F11 key if you change the partitions?
There is a limit of four primary primary partitions on a hard disk. You can create logical partitions inside the primary partitions. I suggest you read a bit to gain knowlege of partitioning hard disks. You might find that purchasing an external hard disk is more practical.
System tools partition holds the UEFI BIOS update and diagnostics. If you delete this partition you will be losing the most tecnologically advanced means of updating BIOS available. You may or may not be able to recreate the partition.
Best regards,
erico
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