[ale] partitioning XP disk with parted

[Jim Philips]

I'm trying to partition a disk on a new computer. Under Disk Management 
in XP, I see two existing partitions:

C: NTFS
D: FAT32

"D" is a rescue partition and only covers 5 gigs. I tried setting up a 
partition with parted, but it failed saying it can't have a "partition 
off disk". So, I can't even get parted to print out a partition table. 
This is a new HP Pavilion. Does anybody have any idea what is going on 
here? I can't install Linux unless I can partition this sucker.