I am trying to partition my new T500 help

When I bought it the first thing I tried was my old version of partition magic. It said I have errors which look like the hidden partition.
When I look at either partition info or windows disc manager I see that there are two partitions 1. is very large and ntsf format and the next one is about 5 GB and fat 32 format.
The errors appear to be related to the fact that the file start at head 32 and sector 33. also that they after vthe end of the disc.
How can I fix this so I can add a few partitions. I don't want to ruin the recovery area or ruin the ability to recover?
If its helpful I can try to attach the partition info.
The software that I have is windows xp prof

Hello,
the recommended program is gparted.
Please try search function of our forum with term "gparted", you´ll get a lot of hints and how to´s.
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