Subj : Linux on old laptop
To   : Tracker1
From : Jazzy J
Date : Sat Dec 11 2021 09:52 am

-=> Quoting Tracker1 to Utopian Galt <=-

 T> On 11/8/21 14:06, Utopian Galt wrote:
 >> just run windows 10 or windows 7.
 >>
 >> by the way, get a ssd and your load time will be very fast.
 >
 > Cant. The system cant support the ssd drive i paid for, refused
 > to boot up.

 T> Wild... could probably try clonezilla to copy your old drive to the new 
 T> drive.  No idea on how/why it wouldn't boot though. (2.5" Sata SSD?)
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 T> Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com

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 I've got a host of laptops running *buntu 20.04, and my servers. I have a
sole laptop that dual boots with Windows 10 (will be 11 when it is allowed
to upgrade.)

With server management and programming, IMHO, the *nix environment rocks.
Couple that with an installation of VS Code and you'll have quite a system
for a few more years.

Working with Windows, SafeBoot or whatever they are calling their boot
protection scheme must be disabled.

SSDs are the way to go. YMMV, but you
can boot to a live Ubuntu 20.04 USB drive, attach the SSD to the system and
do a dd if=<path to old drive> of=<path to new drive> and it will copy the
image of the old drive to the new. Just make sure the new drive is larger
than the original.

Once dd is finished, open gparted and expand the partition to fill the
drive, using ntfsresize -- I believe that gparted will ask you if you want
to run it -- to resize the ntfs information to match the partition.

Once you boot into Windows, run a chkdisk on it and you should be good to
go.

Good luck and happy computing!

Jazzy J

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