How to copy multi-partition installation (MS and Linux) to new disk drive?

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 at 16:33, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> I have a new SSD SATA disk drive that I want to use in a laptop.  The
> existing drive is a 240Gb spinning hard disk, the new drive is a 480Gb
> SSD.
>
> There are several partitions to be copied across plus the boot sectors
> etc.  What's the least painful way of doing all this?
>
> If I simply use dd (on another system, the laptop has only one disk
> slot) to copy from /dev/<old disk> to /dev/<new disk> would this copy
> everything including all the boot code, windows partitions etc.? (I
> know I'd have to resize the partitions afterwards).
>
> Are there easier ways to do this?
>
> I have other systems and lots of disk space available so could use
> gparted (for example) from a USB stick to copy stuff out and then back
> but would this manage all the windows partitions and boot stuff OK?

I use Clonezilla for such tasks.

Colin

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