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Originally posted by Nagamasa
Well Dell's sending me a new hard drive for my Studio 15 laptop. Of course, I'll need to backup all my stuff and then transfer it all. However, to avoid this, I'm thinking of just copying the entire partition over to the new hard drive and then everything as usual from that one.
That is tempting, but let's talk about why they are sending you a new hard drive. I assume it is a warranty replacement because the old drive has developed bad areas and you have experienced some problems with it?
If so and the problems are persistent, you may be better off just putting in the effort of backing up the data and reinstalling the apps. OS and application files that are already damaged will be still corrupt after you transfer them to another drive. Sometimes it works out ok, but but be prepared it might not.
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Originally posted by MeEtc
Gparted only modiffies paretitions
I thought so too for a long time because it isn't intuitive, but no -- GParted can be used to transfer partitions to another drive. The Move function (which most would try first) doesn't do this, but Copy does (and then you can optionally delete the source). I also don't remember whether I had to create the destination partition manually before the copy would work.
