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

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> 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.
> 
How?  :-)

I.e. do you create a bootable Clonezilla USB stick and boot from that
on 'the laptop' or do you install it on another system to which you
connect both the 'old' and the 'new' laptop drives?

-- 
Chris Green