Partitioning windows 8.1

Hello , I just Took Delivery of a HP touchsmart notebook pc 15-n230sa notebook pc laptop , and have done battle and managed to set it up after a struggle, It comes with a 1tb hardrive which runs windows 8.1 op system , I am writing to ask does anyone know if I can partition this drive or not ? as Im unsure I have several hp pc desktop computers most just have one or two partitions and I always get confused with all the many types of partition there are , ie logical , primary , simple I never know whats what , I obviously know primary is main , I have managedto partition most of my pcs opk but before I attempt anything Id thought Id check first , Ive nade crecovery discs ok , Ive also made a system image before i even put it online onto an external drive of all the current partition configs to be safe , I would just like to know can i have a partition to keep my media separate from the os as i have in my other hp desktop which only has a normal c and d drive ie 2 partions thanks
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You can create another partition for your media if you like. Your new notebook has more paritions than you think. It is partitioned as a GPT disk, instead of old school MBR disk, so there are special partitions on the hard disk. In GPT there is no four primary partition limitation.
Invoke the disk management snapin and you will see what I mean.
Follow the instructions on this HP web document to create a new partition.
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