Replace boot drive

Jack McGee jack at greendesk.net
Sat May 20 20:10:08 UTC 2017


On 05/19/2017 03:58 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 19 May 2017 at 18:29, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
>> It's probably time to replace my boot drive on my desktop running 16.04.  I
>> bought new 2TB spinning disk much larger than existing.

>>
>> Is best to install 16.04 from scratch, then restore backups, if so what?
> I would do a complete image backup of the drive using clonezilla, then
> restore that to the new disc and once you have checked it is working
> ok increase the partition sizes as you like (using gparted).
>
> Colin

>
Thanks, I tried that.  Problem is, since this originally was an XP 
machine, the boot disk is NTFS.  I want the new boot disk to be EXT4.

Clonezilla made an NTFS clone on the new drive.  Is is possible to use 
Clonezilla to clone NTFS to EXT4?





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