Safest way to resize windows partition before installing

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 at 07:12, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 11:50:49 AM +1030, Phil wrote:
> > ...
> > For what it's worth, I did the same on my T420 and corrupted Windows 7.
>
> That's exactly my concern

The safest way is to first use something like clonezilla to make a
full backup of the disk.  Then if it goes wrong you can always
re-instate it.  Personally I have used GParted maybe half a dozen
times to shrink a Windows partition and have not had any problems.

Colin