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So I finally got my 250GB SSD for my Laptop (a Samsung Np530u3c). I have to install Windows and Ubuntu together. I was wondering if I could just restore my Backup I did on my current System to the newly installed one on the SSD? I backed up with the build-in Backups and selected everything but "Trash", "~/Downloads" and "/media".

Do you think this will work? Thanks!

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No, this will not work… The built-in back-up does a data backup, not a system back-up…

The easiest way to do what you ask is to:

  1. Download the CloneZilla LiveCD and burn it.
  2. Edit your fstab and get rid of all the UIDs and change them back to /dev/XdY (where X and Y are the original drive locations, probably s and a respectively.
  3. Put the SSD in an external enclosure if your computer doesn't allow 2 hard disks to be mounted. (E.g. small laptop)
  4. Boot and test your new fstab
  5. Boot the CloneZilla Live CD
  6. Follow the on-line manual to make a disk-to-disk image from the HDD to the SSD.
  7. Shut down
  8. Remove the HDD and insert the SSD
  9. Boot from the SSD.
  10. Optional: Edit your fstab again to go back to UIDs.

Done! :-)

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