Safest way to resize windows partition before installing

[M. Fioretti]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 11:50:49 AM +1030, Phil wrote:
> On 24/12/19 5:53 am, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > I used the 'default' gparted to shrink the W7 paprtition on my T470
> > and it worked fine.
> 
> For what it's worth, I did the same on my T420 and corrupted Windows 7.

That's exactly my concern, because I have seen others mentioning the
same issue on those links I included in the original email. It seems
much safer to let Windows shrink itself, but my problem is that I do
not know enough windows to understand if the info in that link I found
is still correct/complete. Or if it has some consequence on how to
configure dual boot later, for example.

On the other hand, the windows built-in tools seem unable, IIUC, to
free more than half the drive, see e.g. here:

https://www.disk-partition.com/articles/reduce-partition-size-5740i.html

so maybe my original question should be rephrased as:

how can I know how much I can safely shrink the windows partition from
gparted? That laptop has a 320 GB drive, and I would really not leave
more than 16, ideally 8, to Windows 7, but how can I be sure that such
a big shrinking won't corrupt windows?

Thanks,
		Marco
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