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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude
MorningSong
@MorningSong asked:

On the new video, thank you for describing the EFI boot process--I wasn't aware it was that straightforward.

A month or so back I migrated to a new boot SSD on my desktop and didn't really have the spoons to go through a windows reinstall so I did a very elaborate "DD the old SSD onto the new one and resize/move the partitions in gparted" so that i could skip it, but knowing that it's Just Files, I probably made it way more complicated than I needed to.

I suspect you could not have simply copied everything due to NTFS permissions being an incredibly complicated mess. I am positive that no copy of Windows will pull this off without involving the shadow copy service (so you'd require a third party utility most likely,) but perhaps Linux could manage it with the modern NTFS drivers.

But in theory? You should be able to do this with no special tools and a simple filewise copy.


MorningSong
@MorningSong

I think you're right that copying in explorer (or probably even cp -a on the linux side) wouldn't work, but i suspect ntfsclone would have done the trick. I'll probably babble about it on here if I ever do a similar migration on a windows-using machine in future.


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