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Remember to back up everything before resizing your partitions. It’s so easy to lose all your data when you do that.
Didn't need to. On top of the fact that I've never used Windows on this computer and I have Linux Mint installed on an external hard drive, the Windows installation needed to be repaired as my laptop's CMOS battery died a while back and it made both Linux Mint and Windows 10 unbootable. I was able to repair Linux Mint's installation through the LiveCD but, while I do know how to because I've done it on other computers, I never saw a reason to repair Windows as well and originally intended to wait until I got a new PC.