Time to upgrade the laptop. On my current one i run W11 alongside Ubuntu
I want/need to keep my current SSD.
My current ssd layout is like so
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 534527 532480 260M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 534528 567295 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3 567296 154198015 153630720 73,3G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 7811987456 7814035455 2048000 1000M Windows recovery environme
/dev/nvme0n1p5 154198016 299360255 145162240 69,2G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p6 299360256 7811987455 7512627200 3,5T Linux filesystem
New machine comes with its own W11 activated with its own license.
I could try to swap the licenses (as they are both technically W11s) but i have no idea if that is even possible, so i thought of swapping the windows installations.
I thought of dumping my old one to a file, resizing the new one to match the old one’s size, also dumping the new one to a file, and then proceed to flash the dumped windows images to the respective new locations.
- would this work?
- should i also do the same with efi, recovery and such?
- what can go wrong?
- is this described anywhere? I’m sure i’m not the only dual-boot user that wants to keep the drive when changing the machine, but sadly windoze really had to do their restrictions after WinXP..
