As well as all my important stuff in /home, can I transfer over the operating system as well as everything in the root partition? What about the Windows Partition? Thanks in advance.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    111·
    28 days ago

    You can use dd to transfer literally everything, like partitions, boot sector and filesystems over and then use gparted to grow the partitions. Boot any Linux live image to do it.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      5·
      28 days ago

      No, this will not fixup the GPT partition table, so partclone, integrated in clonezilla, is way easier.

      Otherwise yes, dd and gdisk work really well. But you can easily mess up and Clonezilla just works

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        28 days ago

        You can buy an external drive case cheap and plug in the old one with USB-C. I have multiple from Inateck which cost ten bucks on Amazon.

          • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
            2·
            27 days ago

            If it’s a 2.5" drive, get a drive case and make it external. If it’s an m.2 chip, you can still get cases for those. I don’t know how much they cost, but they exist. If it’s soldered to the logic board, you’re out of luck.

          • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
            2·
            27 days ago

            These are cases specifically to house internal drives.

            Actually most cases are. Chances are good that even if you just buy any external drive that if you were to screw it open that it would have just a normal internal drive in there hooked up to an adapter.