Swap Windows and Linux hard drives without reinstalling

Jul 14, 2018
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Hi, awesome community! Here's the situation:

MSI GE60 notebook that has
1TB HDD with Windows 10 and
250GB mSATA SSD with KDE NEON Linux

I've been using Linux over a year as my primary workstation, but things changed and now I use Windows for the most time. I want to swap hard drives for both OS's so that Windows would be on SSD and Linux on HDD without reinstalling both systems.

What's the easiest way do that? Probably there's some software to create an image of a drive and than restore it on another drive?
 
Solution
You need a 3rd drive.

Macrium Reflect
Create a Macrium Reflect Rescue USB.
Create an Image of the Windows drive on the 3rd drive
Create an Image of the Linux drive on this 3rd drive
Images...not clones.
Install whichever drive you want the Windows OS on
Boot from the Macrium Rescue USB, and tell it what image and which drive to apply it to
Repeat for the Linux drive.

I think this will work.

USAFRet

Titan
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You need a 3rd drive.

Macrium Reflect
Create a Macrium Reflect Rescue USB.
Create an Image of the Windows drive on the 3rd drive
Create an Image of the Linux drive on this 3rd drive
Images...not clones.
Install whichever drive you want the Windows OS on
Boot from the Macrium Rescue USB, and tell it what image and which drive to apply it to
Repeat for the Linux drive.

I think this will work.
 
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