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Can it cause any kind of REAL problems to resize a partition after having an OS installed on it - or is it just an urban legend?

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Mar 15, 2026434 views
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I just bought a laptop with some pre-setup partitions like recovery partition, OEM partition, a smaller Windows-partition and the Windows system partition. Their structure and size looks like this: I don't really like this 650 GB partition for the system... and thought about resizing this partition…

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You have risks so you will want to make sure you know what you're doing. However, I do this all the time. I don't care about the "hidden restore" partition and I do not like having the entire drive as one partition. I'll download Ubuntu LiveCD www.u…

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