X61 partition on vista

Hi,
I have a brand new X61 with Vista Basic and would like to have two partitions instead of one. Now i have one partition (drive C) and i like to create another partition and install Linux. I mean i want create dual-boot vista and Linux (Ubuntu). Please point me out on how to do it.
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Unfortunately, Vista's Disk Management often can only shrink an NTFS system partition to about half its original size, because there are usually unmovable systems files placed around the middle of the partition. I wanted to reduce my Vista OS partition even smaller than that, but I was scared to force-move these system files because I seem to recall other users having said that moving the MFT and such files caused their OS X to no longer be able to find the Windows partition. But I decided to try anyways...
I don't have a 3rd-party partition manager, so I used the PerfectDisk defrag program I already have to move these system files towards the beginning of the partition (note that this can only be done offline during boot-up defrag). In the end I was left with a single contiguous free space block at the rear of the partition, which allowed Vista Disk Management to shrink my OS partition down even further. FYI other defraggers I'd tried in the past couldn't seem to do this.
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I also noticed that Vista Disk Management actually created my second NTFS partition as an Extended partition with a Logical volume inside it, instead of as a Primary partition. This seems the default behavior, presumably so that you can still create additional Logical volumes/partitions inside the Extended partition and bypass the 4-Primary-partition limit.
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But no go, OS X still doesn't see the second NTFS partition!
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Vista's diskpart.exe utility does have a *CREATE PARTITION EFI* command which:
"+Creates an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) system partition on a GUID partition table (GPT) disk.+"
The problem is that in the Boot Camp scheme, Vista sees the disk as being an (emulated) MBR disk and not GPT, so I don't think this command would work. I'm afraid to even try, as I don't want to mess up the Boot Camp multi-boot loader.

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