how install win w/o wiping the disk

[Colin Law]

On 13 July 2012 17:09, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 July 2012 17:03, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Could he clone the ubuntu partition using clonezilla, wipe and install
>> windows, create a partition the right size for ubuntu and restore it
>> from the clonezilla backup.  Then install grub using the live CD?  I
>> am shortly to get a new laptop and my plan is to clone the Ubuntu
>> partition to the new laptop using this technique (except windows will
>> already be installed).
>
> TBH I do not know enough about Clonezilla - my use of it has been
> copying whole partitions/disks & in this case the partition structure
> will be different, so I am not sure it will work.

I had forgotten that it is formatted GPT.  That may well be an issue.

Colin