Moving fram small HD to larger SSD

[nilsA]

I am moving WIN10/Kubuntu from a 250 GB hard drive to a 500 GB SSD. I have been using the 16.04 DVD install disk to do this, using the dd command. I then get the SSD partitioned as WIN10 on the first 125 GB, Kubuntu on the second 125 GB, leaving half the disk empty.

What I want, is to get WIN 10 as the first 3/4 of the SSD, and Kubuntu on the last 1/4.

But when I remove the Kubuntu partition, I am still not allowed to expand the first partition. (Using Kubuntu's Partition Manager).

It's probably just a small detail, but I have not done "real" Kubuntu for a while, so can someone please help me do this? I don't want to loose the WIN 10 files/installation, but am installing the new version of Kubuntu rather than upgrading an earlier version with some problems.

[Qqmike]

Hi nilsA. We have some "clone-backup" experts here who may chime in soon on this. In the meantime, just two quick thoughts:

(1) re dd: In my experience, after some experiments, I finally chose to follow a "rule" I read by a long-time dd-expert: When copying drives, use dd ONLY to copy from one drive to a second drive of the exact same size. In how dd works, it's like dd takes that Windows partition and embeds it * as a partition of the same size * right into your target drive. Thus, in particular, you might say that dd doesn't even "see" the remaining room on your target drive. dd reads and copies bit-by-bit, recall, and so picks up everything, not just the contents of a file system. Thus, I am suggesting to use some other cloning/backup utility to do this job -- which others here may know about.

(2) Personally, to edit (e.g., expand) partitions, I would take the safe, tried-and-true route and simply use GParted (say GParted live CD/USB):
http://gparted.org/livecd.php
And GParted may even have a copy function for this, I'm not sure.

[jlittle]

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What I want, is to get WIN 10 as the first 3/4 of the SSD, and Kubuntu on the last 1/4.

But when I remove the Kubuntu partition, I am still not allowed to expand the first partition...

Instructions I have read said, you have to use Windows to resize the Windows partition.

John Little

[Qqmike]

I'm rusty on Windows partition management, but GParted handles NTFS, right?
http://gparted.org/features.php

[nilsA]

Thank you both!

The reason I used dd was, it was the only thing that did work. Possibly some extra memory I installed at the same time. It was not compatible, or at least not reliable, so things just stopped. dd did work.

So I have the SSD, and don't mind keeping just the Windows part, as I had a bad install of the last LTS version that bothered me. I'll download and burn gparted, and then see what happens.

Thank you both, so far!

Regards, nilsA

[nilsA]

As it went - Gparted live for removing the non-Win10 system partitions, then Win 10 Disk Management for expanding this partition .

Then into Win 10 and do disk-check for the drives with NTFS file system.

Install Kubuntu on the remaining free part of the disk - and things seems to run just about fine. :-)