Safest way to resize windows partition before installing

Mark Widdicombe markwiddicombe at gmail.com
Tue Dec 24 07:21:46 UTC 2019


On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 at 09:12, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> 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
> --
>

Remember to de-fragment the Windows drive before you resize it...

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