HP Envy 6 1010us Sleekbook, removed Windows 7 and installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS cannot create a healthy partition table due to a hidden recovery partition. Is there anyway around this?

I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a brand new HP Envy 6 1010us. But no matter how I create my partition table my only extended partition is misaligned according to disk utility and the output of fdisk -ls says partition does not start on physical sector boundry! I have concluded that this is because there is a hidden recovery Windows 7 C: Drive that is factory locked and cannot be removed or accessed unless you unhide it and assign a drive letter to it within your original copy of the Windows 7 OEM that was installed on the laptop. So with my usual Linux brain active I am wondering if it is at all possible to hack this partition through Ubuntu or if I really need these damn recovery disks from HP to remove it? Can someone tell me if there is a way to remove it or partition around it so I can utilize my hdd in a productive way? Or do I need to restore it to factory default remove the partition by unhiding it and assigning it a drive letter, then dual boot so i can have both os's but make sure to asign grub2 to its own partition, as I have heard that it overwrites the MBR and Windows 7 will no longer boot,,,only Ubuntu? Damn it sucks to be addicted to Ubuntu sometimes!!!!!!!!!!!!