I plan to clone a laptop HDD with Windows 7 and Zorin 15, to a new SSD. Anyone have experience doing this? Many cloning apps are windows only. I currently have Macrium , Aomei and Clonezilla. I'm pretty sure Clonezillz will do this job. I'm not aware of anything else that will.
One concern I have is that saving the image on an external drive may nuke the data on that drive. In fact, I was well into doing it when that thought suddenly seized me, and I shut the computer down. Didn't want to risk blowing away all my wife's backups! I've saved partition images before, but not two different OS's on one HDD.
Which is why I plan to do a direct HDD to SSD clone, with a new SSD, so no chance of losing anything. There are a lot of tutorials out there, but I can't find one that deals with a Windows/Linux dual-boot.
both drives will be 1TB. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron N7010, about 10 years old. The HDD is rated "caution" by Crystal Disc, which is why I want to clone it. Windows is hanging badly on it, and I haven't' been able to fix it. But with a fresh clone, I can do things like a non-destructive reinstall, system restore, etc, without worrying, since I still will have the original.
Thanks, Mike
One concern I have is that saving the image on an external drive may nuke the data on that drive. In fact, I was well into doing it when that thought suddenly seized me, and I shut the computer down. Didn't want to risk blowing away all my wife's backups! I've saved partition images before, but not two different OS's on one HDD.
Which is why I plan to do a direct HDD to SSD clone, with a new SSD, so no chance of losing anything. There are a lot of tutorials out there, but I can't find one that deals with a Windows/Linux dual-boot.
both drives will be 1TB. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron N7010, about 10 years old. The HDD is rated "caution" by Crystal Disc, which is why I want to clone it. Windows is hanging badly on it, and I haven't' been able to fix it. But with a fresh clone, I can do things like a non-destructive reinstall, system restore, etc, without worrying, since I still will have the original.
Thanks, Mike