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So, in my disk management I have a few partitions. I have, in order from left to right, a Windows 7 partition, a shared data partition, and a Windows 8 partition. Well, the shared data partition is only 110GB, and it's almost full. That said, the Windows 8 partition was 380GB. So, I shrank the Windows 8 partition to 280GB, thus allowing 100GB unallocated. I made a new partition there too, and I want to clone the Windows 8 partition to the new one, (kind of a roundabout way of moving my OS to a new partition, so I can add more space to my shared data partition). Is this necessarily a good idea? Can I actually do it?
Do I just copy all the files over, or do I legitimately clone it?
HERE IS A VISUAL
BEFORE
||SYSTEM RESERVED||WINDOWS 7||SHARED DATA||WINDOWS 8||
NOW
||SYSTEM RESERVED||WINDOWS 7||SHARED DATA||WINDOWS 8||BLANK PARTITION||
WHAT I WANT TO DO
||SYSTEM RESERVED||WINDOWS 7||SHARED DATA||BLANK PARTITION||WINDOWS 8||
Do I just copy all the files over, or do I legitimately clone it?
HERE IS A VISUAL
BEFORE
||SYSTEM RESERVED||WINDOWS 7||SHARED DATA||WINDOWS 8||
NOW
||SYSTEM RESERVED||WINDOWS 7||SHARED DATA||WINDOWS 8||BLANK PARTITION||
WHAT I WANT TO DO
||SYSTEM RESERVED||WINDOWS 7||SHARED DATA||BLANK PARTITION||WINDOWS 8||
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7 Professional x64
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Me? Model number... seven? two?
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-5820k
- Motherboard
- ASUS X99-A
- Memory
- 16GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4-2400 (4x4GB)
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA Geforce GTX 970 SC
- Hard Drives
- Samsung 850 EVO 250GB x2; Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 7200RPM 2TB; Toshiba 2.5" 750GB 5400RPM
- PSU
- Corsair RM750
- Case
- Fractal Design Define R5
- Cooling
- Noctua NH-D15
- Other Info
- Yup, it's a computer!