partitioning HD

so i got snow leopard finally, which should make my windows 7 on bootcamp use all my hardware. I wanna back up my hard drive tho and dont have a spare hard drive yet. I know i should get one but my computer is basically backed up on my parents iMac and all my important stuff is on the webs. Can i partition my hard drive and then back it up on the partitioned one via time machine? I know how to partition it, but can i unpartition it once i upgrade to snow leopard so i dont have three different drives on my mac? thats my biggest concern

thanks guys
Brad

With disc utility, no. If you get an App like Partition Magic, yes.

if that didn't cost 60 dollars, is there a free away

Well, PM is not going to work on an EFI system anyway but iPartition will. However, it's going to cost $44.95.

chscag said:

Well, PM is not going to work on an EFI system anyway but iPartition will. However, it's going to cost $44.95.

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Good call. Forgot about that.