Dual boot to eventual partition converging

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badjmod

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I don't have too much space left on my hard drive, and too many things I can't lose, but nothing to back it up on. I want to switch to the Linux OS, Zorin, but I need to bring a large number big files over. Can I make a partition for Zorin and slowly move over my necessary files while shrinking the windows partition and adding the shrunken parts to the Zorin partition? Or is that mere desperation?

I could wait until I get another HDD and or SSD, but I'm aware of how much money I don't have so I'd like to test my free options first.

Currently using Windows 7

Thanks.
 
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Phillip Corcoran

Phillip Corcoran

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"I don't have too much space left on my hard drive"

Then it's pointless to even think about making new partitions on it for another OS, that's not going to help you at all.
Buy another hard drive.

It sounds like you don't have your data backed up at all, that's just asking for trouble. Hard drives can and do fail suddenly, leaving your data inaccessible except by a data recovery specialist (which is mega expensive).
 
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badjmod

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Well by that statement I mean over 100GB.

I don't see why I need a lot more for running a dual boot. At the very least I could have Zorin there to run and play around with for now until I get another storage drive, no?

I don't disagree with you, but I kinda gotta make do with what I have. My life won't end without the data, I will just be very sad for a long time.

Really I just want to make a switch over without worrying about loosing files, but as I thought it seems like it won't happen.
 
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To move the data over, you'd need to create a partition that's at least the size of the data you already have. So if you're over 50% full, you can forget about it. You'd corrupt you system for sure trying to resize your partitions a dozen times while moving files over.

Cough up the dough and get another hdd.
 
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