Replace boot drive

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Jack McGee schreef op 20-05-2017 22:10:

> Thanks, I tried that.  Problem is, since this originally was an XP
> machine, the boot disk is NTFS.  I want the new boot disk to be EXT4.

It would be kinda odd if the boot disk was NTFS. The boot disk is either 
NTFS or EXT4 but not both, if you know what I mean.

What I mean is that only the partitions can be NTFS or EXT4 but the disk 
itself cannot be anything; you cannot really place a filesystem directly 
on disk.

So you have to partition the thing and then some partitions will be NTFS 
(those for Windows) and some will be EXT4 (those for Linux).

If you are saying that the first partition (say /dev/sda1) is now NTFS, 
that is because it is a Windows partition. Windows cannot really 
reliably boot from any partition that is not the first partition, I'm 
sure. That is why you would normally put the Linux boot partition (if 
any) behind the Windows boot partition, because Linux doesn't care.

Thus, if you want to swap the order of the partitions on your drive, it 
cannot really be done.

Windows needs at least one partition and it needs to sit at the 
beginning, I'm sure.

> Clonezilla made an NTFS clone on the new drive.  Is is possible to use
> Clonezilla to clone NTFS to EXT4?

No, but you can't put Windows on ext4.