[GTALUG] Swapping SSD Drives

Jim Ruxton jim.ruxton at gmail.com
Tue Nov 23 17:43:36 EST 2021


I got a 1TB SSD to replace the 128 GB drive. My plan now is to put the new
SSD in a USB carrier then use Clonezilla on a USB drive to clone the old
drive to the new one. Then I can remove the old SSD and replace it with the
newly cloned one.Hopefully all goes smoothly.
Jim

On Tue., Nov. 23, 2021, 5:24 p.m. Daniel Villarreal, <youcanlinux at gmail.com>
wrote:

> According to https://clonezilla.org, this should be fine. It'd be fine to
> put your preferred version of clonezilla on a USB stick and have only the
> two drives in question connected. I'd recommend backing up the large drive
> you plan on cloning to and test it.
>
> have fun,
> Daniel Villarreal
> https://www.youcanlinux.org
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 12:33, Jim Ruxton via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
>> I am currently booting off an SSD drive that boots both Linux (Ubuntu
>> 20.04) and Windows. The partition scheme is shown here:
>>
>>
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=sharing
>> <
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zED6cbDncGz-fd1KF2bMjYEf5v3VWSOn/view?usp=sharing
>> >
>>
>> I want to get a larger SSD and replace it. Can I just clone this drive to
>> a larger one using Clonezilla? ... I've never used Clonezilla before .... I
>> also have a large HDD in the machine ...
>> Jim
>>
>>
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