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

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----- Original Message -----
> From: Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 1:26 PM
> Subject: [kwlug-disc] Copying a Windows 7 partition to a new disk
> 
> 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?