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    Switching Hard Drives

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jcm4, Jan 7, 2009.

  1. jcm4

    jcm4 Notebook Evangelist

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    This may or may not be appropriate for this sub-forum, if not, please move it.
    I have two hard drives for my Dell XPS m1530, one bigger and faster than the other. I recently switched to Ubuntu, and run XP in a VirtualBox, so I have no need for the other hard drive other than for gaming. Windows is currently on the bigger and faster hard drive, with Linux on the slower and smaller one. I'd like to move my Linux OS to the hard drive that's bigger and faster, and put Windoze on the smaller and slower one. How would I go about doing this?
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  2. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    How much free space do you have on the bigger drive? If you've got enough to make a new partition that would comfortably fit your linux installation, then the simplest route would appear to be (1) create that new partition on the large drive, (2) clone your linux installation from the small drive into the new partition you created in step (1), (3) format the small drive, (4) clone the .Windo ws installation onto the small drive, (5) reassign the drive letters so that the small drive becomes the "c:" drive and the large drive becomes whatever drive letter the small drive used to have, and (6) delete the old .Windo ws partition on the large drive and do what you will with the space freed up.
     
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