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

[CrankyOldBugger]

Having said all that... have you considered doing a P2V on the Windows
partition and making it run inside VirtualBox or something similar inside
your Linux partition?


On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 at 14:01 CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The general rule of thumb for dual booting is to install Windows first,
> then Linux as Linux handles Windows better than Windows handles Linux.  So
> if you used whatever method of moving just the Windows partition over, or
> the whole drive using Colin's dd method, then you went ahead and did a wipe
> and load on the Linux side, theoretically you should be good to go.
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 at 13:58 Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> That is interesting.
>>
>> But it is cleaner to re-install Linux, that way hibernate will work
>> without the multi-step futzing I had to do in the past to put the
>> parititon IDs in various places.
>>
>> What about the Windows part?
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>>
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