I would like to backup my Windows 10 from a 256Gb SSD to a 512GB drive and later when my 256Gb drive dies I want to restore it to a new 256GB SSD. Is there Linux software that adjusts for the different sizes of drives?
Thanks in advance.
You may take a look at:
Clonezilla The Free and Open Source Software for Disk Imaging and Cloning
Unfortunately it will not work in my case telling me,
Limitations:
- The destination partition must be equal or larger than the source one.
The fist transfer works but not the restoration.
I don’t see what picking which storage device has to do with the drive size restrictions. Which is why I haven’t installed it.
@ionmich just boot the system from a USB Rescue system, plug in the 512GB via USB (powered), then use dd to put the (assuming sda) windows install onto the other device, remember there are multiple partitions for Windows… Not sure why you are waiting, Windows 10 will be EOL probably (less than a year) before your drive dies…
That was my initial intention. But I wondered if Windows Boot Manager might object to being on a different and unrecognized drive and need changing. The way grub has to be modified.
@ionmich That’s easy fixed, again via the Rescue USB and efibootmgr to point to the correct UUID (as in just create new) and should point to the new device… Some BIOSes have the option to browse to the efi file (On my HP’s I can) to boot from…