I have an HDD and an SSD on my laptop. My HDD has a very high value of reallocated sector count (~10k) and it's likely i'm going to have to replace it soon. I had dual-booted Windows and Ubuntu and I do not want to reinstall them all over again.
My boot partitions are entirely located in the SSD. Only Ubuntu /home
and Windows drives (all except C:/
) are placed in the hdd. I am planning to do the following:
- "unallocate" the hdd partitions from both Windows and Ubuntu (i.e., make them visible as "free space")
- Create a makeshift
/home
in the ssd, so that ubuntu still boots (is that even necessary though?) - Get the hdd replaced
- Reallocate all the free space to both Ubuntu and Windows as required
Will this approach work? Or is there a simpler approach?
System information:
- Ubuntu 20.04 (Linux gt 5.4.0-42-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 10 00:24:02 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
- Windows 10 (will install all pending updates when I boot into it)
- 1TB hdd mounted on
/dev/sda
TOSHIBA MQ04ABF100 (JU001C) - 120GB ssd mounted on
/dev/sdb
WDC WDS120G2G0B-00EPW0 (UI450000)