psythrone
April 19th, 2010, 10:47 AM
So... For a while I have been planning on installing Ubuntu and since I ran recently ran out of physical space for hard drives (4 mounted in the chassi and a fifth lying loose inside). I have been dual booting W7 32bit and W7 64 bit (the loose drive, both system drives are 200gb and running out of space) so I thought I'd get a new 1tb drive and clone both my system-disks onto different partitions on the 1tb disk.
After searching for a while I understood that the best (free) way of doing this is probably using dd on linux.
This made me remember that I haven't been using linux in a while and I should install it again, maybe on a third partition on the new disk.
So the idea is this: I'll format the new drive and make three partitions, one 350gb for win7 32bit, one 350gb for win7 64bit and a final ~300gb for Ubuntu.
Then I'll boot linux from a pen-drive to clone the the windows systems onto the new disk and finally install Ubuntu.
And now the important part of the post: Is this a horribly bad idea, will it even work and could someone please be nice and give me some pointers on how to actually do it?
Also, what Ubuntu version should I install, 9.10 or some other one?
Edit:
After some research I have noticed that it might not be possible to clone over both my windows drives to different partitions on a bigger drive, so now I'm wondering if it is possible to clone over the 32bit W7, then create the other two partitions and reinstall W7 64bit on the second partition and install Ubuntu on the third?
After searching for a while I understood that the best (free) way of doing this is probably using dd on linux.
This made me remember that I haven't been using linux in a while and I should install it again, maybe on a third partition on the new disk.
So the idea is this: I'll format the new drive and make three partitions, one 350gb for win7 32bit, one 350gb for win7 64bit and a final ~300gb for Ubuntu.
Then I'll boot linux from a pen-drive to clone the the windows systems onto the new disk and finally install Ubuntu.
And now the important part of the post: Is this a horribly bad idea, will it even work and could someone please be nice and give me some pointers on how to actually do it?
Also, what Ubuntu version should I install, 9.10 or some other one?
Edit:
After some research I have noticed that it might not be possible to clone over both my windows drives to different partitions on a bigger drive, so now I'm wondering if it is possible to clone over the 32bit W7, then create the other two partitions and reinstall W7 64bit on the second partition and install Ubuntu on the third?