Greetings--
This actually looks like it may be 2 (or more) plans.
For number 1, my experience with cloning drives (admittedly very little, using older versions of G.H.O.S.T. and another program I don't remember off-hand) has been that the cloned drive will boot, but will "think" it has only as much space as the source drive. In your case, the 750GB drive will appear to be only 160BG in size (no unallocated space). (The Ubuntu install may show it differently, however.) Perhaps the EaseUS utility will be able to deal with it differently.
For number 2, perhaps if the original 160BG drive was mounted in the USB enclosure and was readable when the Win7 install began , your upgrade install routine might see it as a qualifying product and install the Win7 OS as a clean install on the new disk. After completing that, you should be able to use the Ubuntu install process to create the partition in the unallocated space, and reinstall Ubuntu, in order to use its boot manager to select your OS . -- or -- If the cloning works, and the additional space shows up as unallocated, you may be able to use EaseUS to adjust the partition sizes for each OS.
Just off the top of my head...
Paul A. Shippert
School Librarian
Margaret Brent Middle School
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Upgrading my netbook ... does my plan make sense?
My (Acer) netbook is just over two years old, and I still love it --
but I want to upgrade it and I'm not sure how straightforward that will
be:
1. It came with a 160GB hard drive, which is getting full. I've got a
750GB drive to replace it, and a USB 2.0-connected unit that will hold
two 2.5" drives. If I use EaseUS's partition utility (or recommended
alternative?) can I clone the old drive to the new and have it be
bootable? (and subsequently adjust the partitions to use the additional
space...)
2. The netbook came with Windows XP Home installed. I partitioned the
drive and added Ubuntu Linux, with Ubuntu's boot manager letting me
choose which I run. Now I want to replace XP Home with Win7 Home
Premium (I got a good deal, so I have the "upgrade" CD already). How do
I do that?
It strikes me that possibly the easiest thing to do is install the new
drive, use my USB CD/DVD external drive and thw Win7 disk to partition
the drive and install Win7, and then do a fresh Ubuntu install to the
remaining space. (This install of Ubuntu should recreate the boot
manager listing Win7 instead of XP...) Any flaws in this plan? Any
simpler suggestions?
David Gillett
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