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Linux dual boot (piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago by StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.world
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So, I need to dual boot my computer into windows. I have been using only zorin for a while but now I need to dual boot for school. I purchased a new drive, so I don't have to partition my current drive but it is larger than my current drive. Is there an easy way to move zorin onto the new drive and have windows on my current one? Or will I just have to flash zorin onto the new one and then reimage windows onto my current one?

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[–] yellowbadbeast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Use dd! It's a tool that allows you to copy the contents of anything bit-for-bit to anywhere else. First, you'll need to boot into a live USB of any distro. Then, after plugging in both drives, you'll want to run something like dd if=/path/to/source/drive of=/path/to/output/drive bs=4M. You can get the paths of each drive by running lsblk, and they'll look something like /dev/sda1 or /dev/nvme0n1. (Be very careful with dd, as whatever you put as the output drive will be irreversibly overwritten with whatever you put the input drive as.)