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DM3K · Feb 12, 2013, 12:40 AM

Anytime you mess with an active windows partition there is a chance that your os will be corrupted, so make a backup first.
I have (rarely) seen windows crash from only resizing a partition.

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Feb 12, 2013, 12:40 AM	#4
DM3K Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Munster, Indiana, USA Posts: 199 (0.23/day) Thanks: 9 Thanked 25 Times in 19 Posts System Specs	Anytime you mess with an active windows partition there is a chance that your os will be corrupted, so make a backup first. I have (rarely) seen windows crash from only resizing a partition.