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Shrink Volume in Windows

In windows Disk Management there is an option to shrink volume.
I wonder in the case I have C:drive total size 100GB and 60 GB of free space.  if I need to create a new partition D with 30GB of space, and choose to shrink C: drive, would I loose any data ?

Another case, is if Windows machine is a VM, can I just do that through Vspher Client only, or both from Vsphere client as well as from disk management of windows?

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SO what I retain is :

I can shrink the volume through Disk Management.

Vsphere can increase the size of the disk but cannot shrink it
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Thank you Guys!