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Section E.1:Hard Disk Basic Concepts 113
Figure E–11 Disk Drive Being Compressed
This step is crucial. Without it, the location of your data could prevent the partition from being resized
to the extent desired. Note also that, for one reason or another, some data cannot be moved. If this is
the case (and it severely restricts the size of your new partition(s)), you may be forced to destructively
repartition your disk.
Resize the existing partition
Figure E–12, Disk Drive with Partition Resized shows the actual resizing process. While the actual
result of the resizing operation varies depending on the software used, in most cases the newly freed
space is used to create an unformatted partition of the same type as the original partition.