Ubuntu – How to move Linux on a USB stick to a hard drive partition

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I was running Ubuntu on a USB stick for a while because my hard drive had failed. It had two partitions.

I recently installed a new hard drive and installed Windows on it. I created a new partition inside Windows that is larger than the USB stick.

My question is: how do I move Linux to this partition on the new hard disk so that I have a dual-boot system? I downloaded a program called EaseUS Todo Backup but it can only clone a hard disk onto a hard disk or a partition onto a partition. Ubuntu is installed on the whole USB stick and has two partitions of about equal size.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Best Answer

Try installing Ubuntu and moving home directory to your new system.

If you need to move it and it's a proper installation (not live version) then use

dd bs=4M if=/dev/partition_on_pendrive of=/dev/partition_on_disk

Then chroot into partition you've created and install grub. Don't forget about swap.

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Don't bother to partition SSD disk.

I would suggest to shrink the partitions on the old disk first to fit the size of the SSD, then dd old disk to new one

But make a backup first.

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As first you need to find out data about your HDD, you can do this by typing in terminal:

sudo fdisk -l

You should get an output like this:

Disk /dev/sda: 149,1 GiB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x06bd4abe

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048 230055935 230053888 109,7G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       292970494 312580095  19609602   9,4G  5 Extended
/dev/sda3       230055936 292968447  62912512    30G 83 Linux
/dev/sda5       292970496 312580095  19609600   9,4G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order.

So lets say /dev/sda3 is the drive you want to clone, then you can do:

dd bs=512 if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb1/partition.ddfile seek=230055936 count=$(expr 292968447 - 230055936)

Remind this here are only examples you would need to fit that to your situation.

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