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Saftey of Resizing a Drive

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tjcinnamon

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Hey guys,

My brother is running an OSX (on my dads iMac) with XP boot camped on the drive. I want to install the beta for windows 7 because he is really into the media player aspect of it.

Bootcamp will allow a partition size of 1/2 to total size of the drive. When I bootcamped XP if wanted to give it as much space as possible because it became evident quite quickly that he hated OSX. My Dad uses XP quite a bit plus installing a beta OS as a primary OS is ludicrous.

Anyways I want to resize the XP partition so I can install 7 on part of the partition. I have resized a number of partitions in my day but the last one I tried to resize (at work) was a nightmare. It was an incredibly old drive and I tried to resize it with BootItng and the filesystem went FUBAR.

If I was to use GParted to resize the partition what are the odds of things going wrong? BootItng didn't check the drive well enough (I don't think)

What could I do to prevent errors things from happening?

Do you think I could take an image of the entire drive, make my experimental changes, and re-image it back if it screwed up? (my concern is the multi operating system bootcamp factor).

Thanks,
JOe K.
 
I'll let you know how it goes. This will be my first time using GParted and Clonezilla. I'll let you know how it goes.

Anyone else care to weigh in?
 
Do you think booting into bartPE and just doing a manual copy of the entire drive would work?

I did this at work before I left yesterday to test it but we have a mandatory off day (due to -40F temperatures) so I can't check the results.
 
ALWAYS make a backup of your important data or an image of the disk first.

I just resized my Raptor before installing Win7 using a combo of Defraggler and GParted.
Defraggler did a much better job of defragging and compacting the files in XP closely together, so I could create as large a Win7 partition as possible. It was written by the guys who made CCleaner.
The GParted resize was very fast and came out great (typing this from Win7 now), so I don't think you'll have any problems.

ALWAYS make a backup of your important data or an image of the disk first.
 
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