Hello! I've managed to set up dual booting on my PC with Windows 10 Pro and Zorin OS 18 Core. On startup, it works well, with the GRUB menu and everything. However, I installed Zorin OS on a partition of my HDD, and - I should've known - it's a bit slower than I thought it would be, hehe.
I'm aiming to reinstall Zorin 18 on a partition of my SSD after I clear up enough space on it to do so. However, through all the tumult of switching off Intel RST, combing through other posts and Ubuntu guides, getting the GRUB menu to function, etc., I'm worried about losing hours of work and redoing everything (including the settings and basic apps/packages I've already set up on Zorin.)
My current specs and scheme are:
- 128GB SSD (tiny, I know)
- 1TB HDD / ~750GB part., ~250GB part.
So, is there some easy way to transfer Zorin and all its basic stuff to a new partition on my SSD? Would it be relatively safe to do, even?
Or, should I bite the bullet, and wade through firmware and command lines for multiple hours again?
The only option that I know is Rescuezilla. It's main use case is cloning entire disks for the purposes of backing their data, but I think it can be used for individual partitions as well.
However, things get more complicated if you're only working with individual partitions because the source and target partitions where you "restore" to have to the be of the same size. There's also the boot loader entries to consider, which would likely need to be updated as well.
This is not something I've ever tried before, so I can't say much more about it. But you can still use Rescuezilla to create copies of your current setup, as a fallback.
In trying this, even after arranging my partitions to be the same size, Rescuezilla wouldn't let me pass to clone (I forget what the error was specifically). So, I eventually decided to flash its older brother Clonezilla to a drive instead. I guess I waded through firmware anyway, hehe...
And, it worked! Clonezilla's options took care of GRUB and the bootloader, and I still haven't encountered any issues. I hope Rescuezilla works for someone else with the same case, anyhow.
