Linux

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.

Clonezilla can do that for you. Very easy, very reliable.

boot any distro from a USB

dd if=/dev/(SMALL DISK) of=/dev/(BIG DISK) status=progress

Do not target partitions, ie /dev/sda1, but target the disk itself, so all partitions are copied over, ie /dev/sda

wait for it to finish

use any partitioning tool to expand the Zorin partition to fill out the remaining space. I like to use gparted.

Fuck cloning software, just do it yourself. It's easier.

can't run windows in a vm?

Like others said dd should work.

If for whatever reason you prefer cloning software I'm pretty sure Clonezilla will easily do a disk-to-disk clone, just double-check if you still need to expand the partition on the new drive after cloning (I don't remember if Clonezilla does that for you).

Just wanted to say, sometimes it's easier having two drives. If you have an extra slot I would do that. You could try vm too. I prefer KVM, but virtualbox is fine and easier.

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.)

What you want is cloning software. You can use proprietary software like Acronis. I have used it for years but it costs.

Or you can choose free software like Clonezilla that you will flash and then boot into on a computer with the old drive and the new drive attached via an adapter. I don’t think it works if the drive is in the computer. Last time I did this a month ago, it didn’t detect the internal drive, only the drives we had attached via USB adapters.

You’ll be able to clone the old drive to the new one and even customize if you want the sizing to remain the same, relatively speaking, or let it consume the new drive naturally, which I prefer.

Once you do that, then you can move on to doing dual boot.

Be careful doing it this way though. Because dual booting by installing Windows after Linux usually requires you to reconfigure your Linux bootloader (GRUB, systemd, etc.) because Windows will override it with its own bootloader that doesn’t recognize any other OS. It’s not impossible, just annoying so most people opt to install Windows then install Linux for dual booting in that order. If you can, you might choose to install Windows on the new drive and then install Zorin afterwards and then bring over your old files and settings after the fact. That might be an easier method here than cloning.