Can you afford a new hard drive? How big is the other partition on your existing hard drive (or how big is the total existing hard drive)? I'd rather see you spend money on a new drive than on partition, though ideally it's nice to have a copy of PM hanging around. IF you can afford another drive, do a nice clean install of everything onto it (shouldn't take long if you only have 2 gigs of OP and APPS). Use the software that comes with the drive (MaxBlast for example for Maxtor drives) to boot with and partition it before you do anything to it.