Question about partitions

Derpinz297

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Recently, I screwed up my laptop somehow when trying to uninstall Ubuntu from my dual boot with Windows 8.1. It was on a partition on my C: drive, and I stupidly deleted that partition and expanded the primary to fill the unallocated space. It no longer booted, and I ended up having to reinstall windows.

This time, I want to be extra careful before I do anything. I am trying to install Fedora 22 in a dual boot with Windows again, and I was wondering what would happen if I shrank my primary partition on my C: drive. Would I still be able to boot, or would it mess up everything again? Any information would be helpful, because I do not want to break my computer again.

Also, I do not have access to an external hard drive, so I can't back anything up.
 
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Deleting your boot partition can only result in bad results. I don't care which OS you use.

You can shrink the boot partition (assuming there is empty space to shrink it into), and then you will be able to create your Ubuntu partition. I would encourage you to do this before you install all of your software again, so that if you do another no-quite-brilliant move again, only the OS's need to be reinstalled.
Deleting your boot partition can only result in bad results. I don't care which OS you use.

You can shrink the boot partition (assuming there is empty space to shrink it into), and then you will be able to create your Ubuntu partition. I would encourage you to do this before you install all of your software again, so that if you do another no-quite-brilliant move again, only the OS's need to be reinstalled.
 
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