Resize NTFS drive, am I gonna break it?

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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My Windows OS drive has failed, I’d like to resize and reinstall Windows on the NTFS drive that is left alive.

So my configuration was made up by 4 drives, configured like this:

  • SSD for Linux
  • HDD for Linux
  • SSD for Windows, OS Only (this one has died)
  • HDD for Windows, this one is alive and contains my Steam library

Now my options are:

  • Buying a new drive
  • Using the remaining NTFS drive

I’d rather pick the second option, however I’m worried about resizing the NTFS drive from Linux, has anyone tried this? Any tips for not losing data?

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I have done the with the gparted tool. I din’t have any problems, but as always anytime you touch a drive in this way you should back up.

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Backup what you want like saved games etc. Before you mess with drives to what storage you have. Steam games can be re-downloaded and often saves as well. So in a pinch delete games over important data.

Even a dd of the failed drive and mount it to see what data is there might work. Ive dd back a copy of a drive and its worked again before.

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Honestly I’m more worried about having to download my games again than anything.

The Windows side of my system doesn’t really have any important data and the failed drive basically only had Windows and Visual Studio (projects are backed up) so it’s not even worth my time trying to recover data from that.

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Well resizing you good NTFS HD/ It SHOULD be fine. But thats what backups are for. Ive bit the bullet and won more than I have lost. Still backups are king.

So it the SSD for windows is a ride off… Format it and put data on it…test it and it that works. Use that as backup storage before you shrink your NTFS HD.

Is the windows SSD dead dead or doesn’t boot dead ?