Problems with repartitioning a HP Pavilion Laptop - PROBLEM SOLVED

[Bill Stanley]

I am happy to report that I got Windows 7 and Linux to happily 
dual-boot.  The problem was the crazy partitioning scheme that HP uses. 
  They had the HD partitioned into 4 primary partitions.  There was a 
small partition called HP-Tools that basically was just to be used as a 
storage space for HP related stuff.  There was no executable files there 
so I deleted the drive (partition) with windows leaving space where I 
could create an extended partition.  I am happy to also report that at 
least on this model, a Pavilion dv6, there is not UEFI as feared.

Thank you all for the good advice and particularly Liam Proven for the 
advice on gparted and partitioning before installing Linux.  Also thank 
you to NoOp for pointing out the problem with the partition called HP-Tools.

Bill Stanley