How to increase size of windows partition in dualboot?

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  1.    #11

    You don't have any choice but to use 3rd party to resize Win8 to the left. We recommend free Partition Wizard bootable CD which has helped here resize countless thousands of complicated partitioning operations without a single failure - whereas all other managers (including PW Home version) except for Disk Mgmt can fail with data loss.

    So you'd shrink Win7 in Disk Mgmt: Partition or Volume - Shrink

    Then you'd boot PW CD, follow these video steps to resize Win8 partition to the left: Partition Wizard Resize Partition - Video Help.

    If for some reason Disk Mgmt doesn't give you enough shrinkage, use PW on Win7 to resize from the right.
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       #12

    gregrocker said:
    You don't have any choice but to use 3rd party to resize Win8 to the left. We recommend free Partition Wizard bootable CD which has helped here resize countless thousands of complicated partitioning operations without a single failure - whereas all other managers (including PW Home version) except for Disk Mgmt can fail with data loss.

    So you'd shrink Win7 in Disk Mgmt: Partition or Volume - Shrink

    Then you'd boot PW CD, follow these video steps to resize Win8 partition to the left: Partition Wizard Resize Partition - Video Help.

    If for some reason Disk Mgmt doesn't give you enough shrinkage, use PW on Win7 to resize from the right.
    ok thanks for clarifying that i have to use 3rd party. i guess ill do it later when i have enough courage to do it , lol
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    I agree with Arc, Golden and Greg . I use the PW boot cd and it`s never failed me and so easy to use.
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       #14

    Just make sure to back up any crucial data. Everyone should do this anyway just as common practice. You're in good hands here...
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       #15

    Thanks for the help everyone . jus to summarize is this what i need to do?:

    -boot partition wizard CD
    -shrink win7 partition by going to move/resize and dragging right side to the left
    -increase win8 partition by going to move/resize and dragging left side to the empty space on the left
    -hit apply and reboot

    Also, will doing this affect my MBR in anyway?
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       #16

    can someone please quickly confirm that what i wrote above is good.
    I just want an experts response before i do it.
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  7.    #17

    Yes, that should work fine. But have your Win7 DVD or Repair CD standing by in case you need to run Repair after resizing, which only happens about 5% of the time and then only when the resizing is done on the boot sector which is at the other end of the HD.
    Last edited by gregrocker; 01 Mar 2013 at 22:39.
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       #18

    thanks everyone, i followed what i summarized above with the help of you guys and it worked flawlessly.
    I didnt have to use win7 repair dvd and i didnt encounter any issues. Partition wizard is actually quite good and fast.

    Thanks again
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  9. Arc
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       #19

    chromium said:
    thanks everyone, i followed what i summarized above with the help of you guys and it worked flawlessly.
    I didnt have to use win7 repair dvd and i didnt encounter any issues. Partition wizard is actually quite good and fast.

    Thanks again
    Good to know :)

    Partition Wizard is a great tool, undoubtedly.
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