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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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[–] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

If you need to dual boot, you can. I think people have already pointed out clonezilla which is a tool that I love. But I'm in school programming assembly using MASM. I found multiple options for this.

A container running msvc via wine utilizes msvc compilers and works with cmake. See here

Or using winapps. Technically, it runs a VM within a container. The part that is cool about winapps is that it uses FreeRDP to basically accomplish what Microsoft RemoteApp used to, it makes it appear as if the program is just running on Linux without any major changes.