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Subject : Re: LUG: New hard drive! Need help copying my data over and stuff.

From : Stephen Bryant <stephen@stephenbryant.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 05 May 2010 22:37:58 -0400

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You should be able to use gparted to do this -- it can copy NTFS partitions between drives. Then you could use the remaining space for your Ubuntu install. And in answer to your question about swap, I believe 1.5 times your RAM is standard.

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On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Richard Carter < rwcarter@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:

1. I'd avoid dd. Disk dumps sound like a great idea in theory. But all of the OS hardware will change, the partition tables will change, everything in /etc will change, etc.

But I don't have a Linux partition to migrate, only Windows. Furthermore, I'm swapping hard drives in one computer, not migrating an old computer to a new computer. I'm simply upgrading my laptop's hard drive, all the hardware will remain the exact same.

And trying to do a disk dump from your original 160G hard drive to a partition on your 500... holy moly.
But... it would only be a 160gb transfer. I mean, sure it would take some time despite being USB 2.0 but it's not THAT outrageous... right?