Windows 7 - Partition Hard Disk Without Formatting Drive C

Aug 6, 2011

I bought new hp laptop.. it came with 500 GB harddisk, windows 7 home basic, I didn't get any windows cd apart from recovery in hard disk. My windows is installed in c: and that is the only drive that it have... now the situation..

1) I want to partition my harddisk without losing windows means I don't want to format C: drive
2) I also want to install linux in dual mode with windows..

Second question is related to first one because I don't need any method that may lead to situation like I can't install any other operating system.

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