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Alastair
Asked: 2013-02-07 02:08:19 +0800 CST

Adding a SSD drive to an exisitng dual boot system

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I have an existing dual boot system Ubuntu 12.04 LTE and Windows 7 on a 1TB disk. This is partitioned as 50gb for Windows, 50gb for Linux and the rest as shared storage.

I would like to add an SSD drive to improve speed would it be possible/ easy to move the existing Windows and Linux partitions to the SSD?

Or would it be better to reinstall Linux alone on the SSD and still dual boot using the Windows 7 partition on the existing drive?

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2 Answers

  1. Boot from Live Linux distro

    dd if=/dev/olddisk of=/dev/newdisk bs=2048

    after successful boot, mount old disk somewhere in linux and use it as data storage

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  2. divide ssd and use it bootable for both os it help you to increase speed on win7 and ubuntu and use 1 TB drive for storage try to reinstall os, it will help both os to setup correctly on new SDD, moving os may not work as fresh.

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