Replace boot drive

[Colin Law]

On 20 May 2017 at 21:10, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
> On 05/19/2017 03:58 PM, Colin Law wrote:
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>> On 19 May 2017 at 18:29, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> Is best to install 16.04 from scratch, then restore backups, if so what?
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>> 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).
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>> Colin
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> 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.

What have you got on the NTFS partition?

Colin