Drive cloning: have I got this right?
I have a comparatively elderly Lenovo T61 laptop which I like a lot: compact, chuckable (titanium frame) reliable… and it works.
Having obtained a newer Lenovo lappie, I’m planning to have a play with the old one: put Linux Mint on and learn how to use it; maybe dual-boot with Windows X - again, to have a play in an isolated environment: at present I can’t see any reason to leave W7.
However…
However, the thing only has a 75 Gb HDD, which is getting pretty full already. So would this strategy work:
- buy a larger - say 250G - solid-state drive
- clone new drive to exist drive using Clonzilla (or can anyone suggest better?)
- hope that the machine would work
. (and what about the hidden partition that Lenovo puts on the drive for recovery?)
Thanks, as they say, for looking!