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Is grub needed when copying Ubuntu to a new drive

I have a machine with one drive, and 2 OSs installed in 2 partitions, one windows and one Ubuntu 16.04. Grub is installed. I just got a new physical drive. After I assemble it in the machine, I would ...
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Moving partitioned dual boot to separate drives

I would like to dual boot Windows 10 with Ubuntu and have each on separate drives. Simple right? Well, the problem is that I already have Windows 10 and Ubuntu dual booted onto a single drive. Ideally ...
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Moving to a new drive

I got a 240GB SSD for Christmas, as well as external casing for a hard drive. I have a laptop with a 500GB hard drive on it, and it's quite close to full. Right now, I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu on my ...
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Cloning Ubuntu to new SSD

There are a few questions on how to migrate Ubuntu to a new SSD, but either the posts are old or I could not understand them. In an expectation that there is an easier newer solution, I am posting my ...
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replace hard drive while hibernated

I have an Ubuntu Server 20.04 machine running with a long-running memory-intensive data processing script running. I would like to replace my old hard drive with a new, larger hard drive. Is it ...
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How do you set up GRUB after duplicating a drive with Clonezilla in the same PC?

My context (to avoid the XY problem) I have a 500GB SSD that may be failing and is now too small. After a thorough backup, I will replace it with a 1 TB drive in the same slot and move the 500GB to ...
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Computer is fast but loads stuff slowly

I’ve recently got a new PC which is much faster than my old one, and to make things easier I transferred the hard drive (with Lubuntu 22.04 LTS on it) from my old PC to my new one. While using the new ...
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Issues cloning an external install of Ubuntu

I have a bit of a weird situation regarding cloning a drive. I work at a university in the visual resource center. For archiving we wanted to have a local installation of a program called Access to ...
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Trouble booting after moving Ubuntu 18.04 across drives

Background I'm on VirtualBox 6.0.12. I had a drive which contained a /boot partition, and an encrypted (LUKS) main partition. I wished to remove the encryption and apparently the best way to do this ...
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How can I migrate a partition to another disk which already has a single partition the full size of the diskknow

I have a disk in use that I wanna remove to free up the sata port (so I can plug in my dvd drive and watch movies!) Disaster struck when I tried to shrink the partition on the target drive to make ...
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