[kwlug-disc] Copying a Windows 7 partition to a new disk

[Colin Mackay]

My first thought was to use 'dd' to just duplicate the entire drive...  Not
sure if the new disk is the same size as the old.  If it's larger, you'll
end up with some unused space and could extend the Linux partition.  Then
just modify /etc/fstab to remove the /home folder entry, then copy your
home folder over as you mentioned.

There may be better ways with other tools... but I'm sure that will end up
requiring some grub magic, which I don't do often enough to give out advice.


On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> A laptop at home has a functional Windows 7 partition, in addition to
> the Kubuntu 14.04 root partition and the /home directory is on its own
> partition.
>
> The disk is unhealthy per the SMART stats, so I bought a new SSD disk
> to replace the original one.
>
> One thing is I want to combine root and /home in a single root
> partition when replacing the disk.
>
> I will do that the same way I did it on my by installing the new SSD
> in the laptop, creating a partition for Windows, and another for Linux
> (root, home and all), then copying the home directory from the daily
> rsync server backup.
>
> All this, I know how to do, and have done it before.
>
> The question is: How does one go about copying the Windows partition
> from the old disk to the new disk, using only Linux, and make sure
> that it is in the grub's boot menu, and functional as before. Doesn't
> Windows refuse (or used to refuse) to work when copied to a new hard
> disk?
>
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