will resizing partitions erase data?

[JXY]

Hi,

I'm dual booting vista home premium and xp professional sp3 on my laptop. I have vista installed natively on a partition of my TOSHIBA MK1637GSX, and two other partitions. One is my recovery partition (comes with hp machines) for vista, and the other has xp installed on it.

My vista partition has 80 gigs of free space, and i would like to shrink it to produce about 40gigs of unallocated space, then extend my xp partition, hence tranferring 40 gigs of space from one partition to the other. I remember vista has a built in function which allows for resizing of partitions. My question is, will doing so erase data on the partitions? 

thnx in advance.

JXY

[Dusty]

According to this there will be no data loss. 

However, if you are concerned about losing files they should be backed up as normal good practice.  You can never tell when your hard drive will fail catastrophically leaving you with nothing!

Good luck

[JXY]

thnx a million. 

looking for confirmation before i pulled the stunt.

however, i'll still take your advice and backup important data.

thnx again.

JXY

[Dusty]

You're welcome.

I didn't mean that you should just back up your important data before resizing partitions, I meant that you should be backing up your important data on a regular basis.   Like all other electro/mechanical devices hard drives can fail completely without warning.

Good luck.