On 1/6/20 10:35 AM, linux guy wrote:
I'm about to purchase a new workstation computer because my current workstation is too slow. The new computer comes with Windows 10 installed on it. I rarely use Windows, but occasionally it comes in handy to troubleshoot something, so I'd like to leave it on the hard drive.
Is Windows booting via EFI? I would expect it is, but just checking. Is your old Fedora computer booting with EFI?
Question: how do I transfer my current workstation installation to the new hard drive and retain Windows ? I don't want to start over building my workstation installation from a fresh install.
How big is the old hard drive and how big is the new one? If you can resize Windows to leave enough space, you could directly copy the partitions from one drive to the other. Otherwise, you can create the necessary partitions on the new drive and rsync (with the right flags) the data from the old hard drive. Either way you will you need to adjust the booting on the new system after. Check the fstab on the old system. With the rsync method, if the fstab is using labels, then just create the new partitions with the same labels. Otherwise, you will need to adjust the copied fstab to use the new partition UUIDs.
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