Using bootable USB flash drive to partition internal HDD

I just got my B5400 with Windows 8 x64 and UEFI. I found out that you can't lower the size of the hard drive by a lot. I want to split my HDD into 250GB and 666GB, one for the OS and one for data obviously. Therefore I tried the tool windows offered me but it said that I couldn't make a smaller drive because system relevant data are working at the moment.
So after searching the web I found out, that I have to use a bootable USB flash drive with something like Gparted running, to partition the HDD without any errors. I formatted my USB drive to FAT32 and made it a bootable stick with a program offered on the official website of gparted. I eagerly wanted to use it and plugged it in. Still booting into Windows. So I went into UEFI and checked the settings. I disabled secure boot mode and made it that legacy comes first. Then I chose 'USB HDD flash drive' in the boot manager and exited saving changes. I started my laptop and hit enter to et to the boot manager, made sure to select my USB drive and then confirmed it. It booted into Windows. I don't even understand why it is that way. It is like everything is set up correctly, but still it's trolling me.
I would appreciate any help greatly. And to make clear, I don't want to burn a CD or DVD, I want it to be working with a USB drive.

Hello,
search the web for "yummi bootmanager", it's free and easy to use.
If you got OKR (OneKeyRecovery) on your device, it will not longer work with resized parititions.
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