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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Can you transfer OS from one drive to another one that's already in use without losing data? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My case: windows 10 on a 128gb drive and move it to a 1tb drive with game files/user files in general (it has like 200gb of free space)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Mmm, sure but it can be a bitch to get booting again if you don't know what you're doing and sometimes when you do. Lol

I'd do it with gparted and if you're using uefi then you need to grab that partition too and that's where may run into a problem that requires you to know how to work with on your particular system bios.

Typical cloning tools will just wipe what's there, gparted let's you copy individual partitions and paste them on another disk. Not a lot of people know that. :)

Available on just about every Linux iso, can easily be installed if it isn't, and has its own iso of you need something dedicated.