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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||