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

[CrankyOldBugger]

Windows can be very stubborn when you move it to a new HDD.  There are
several utilities out there (one may have even come with your new SSD, or
you can download from the manufacturer) that claim to do the job.  I find
them to be hit/miss, and I strongly suggest that you test the process very
thoroughly before you pitch the old HDD.

I've seen cases where Windows transferred without a single glitch, and I've
seen cases where I had to invent new swear words.  The process is
theoretically possible, but don't depend on blind luck.



On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 at 13:28 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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> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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