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I have to OS installed: ubuntu 14.04 LTS and MS Windows 7 Pro.

Linux system:

1) System Partition 50GB, 30GB free

2) Home Partition 100GB, 60 GB Free

3) Swap Partition 8GB

Windows 7:

1) There is only one system partition something about 160 GB as far as i remember.

Here's what's my disk looks like:

Disk / dev / sda: 320.1 GB, 320,072,933,376 bytes

heads: 255, sectors / track 63, Cylinders: 38913, all in all sectors: 625142448

Unit = sectors, or 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

The sector size (logical / physical) in bytes: 512/512

Size I / O (minimum / optimum) in bytes: 512/512

Disk ID: 0x2197dc6f

Device    Boot    Start      End        Blocks     ID System

/dev/sda1  *      2048       206847     102400     7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda2         206848     314781695  157287424  7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda3         314783742  625141759  155179009  5 Extended

/dev/sda5         314783744  412438527  48827392   83 Linux

/dev/sda6         412440576  607750143  97654784   83 Linux

/dev/sda7         607752192  625141759  8694784    82 Linux swap / Solaris

I would like to shrink the Linux's system partition by 20 GB and Home Partition by 20 GB and then add it to my Windows 7 OS.

I would be eternally grateful if you could give me step-by-step tutorial on how to do this, bcos I wouldn't like to mess my PC up ;P

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EDIT: According to your fdisk output, I adjusted the solution. Also, as it was pointed out, you need to boot on a live session (LiveCD or LiveUSB) so that none of your partitions are mounted.

Follow these steps to rearrange your partitions:

  1. If you are not familiar with partitioning using GParted, read this post: How to resize partitions?
  2. Resize sda7 (Home) to 81920 MiB and move it as far as possible to the right.
  3. Resize sda6 (System) to 30720 MiB and move it as far as possible to the right.
  4. Resize sda2 (Windows) so as to fill the empty space (≈ 40 GiB).
  5. Repair GRUB using Boot-Repair. You shouldn't need to fix the MBR, but if Windows fails to boot after these steps, it wouldn't be a bad choice to try that. See this article: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair (follow the 2nd option if you want to stay on your live session)
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