Copied system partitions to USB disk, how to proceed to make a clone?

[John R. Sowden]

Thank you Alan and Steve.  I was not printing to a PDF, but that could 
have been a later nightmare.  Where my mindset was wrong was that I 
thought that the mousing a section WAS the define.  So I clicked on 
define, then moused, then had nothing.  I just tried your method Steve 
and it worked.  My vendor in Canada will receive my limited spreadsheet 
shortly!

Thank you,
John


On 10/18/21 4:21 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 01:03, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I did my best in the Windows update part, took many cycles to get it silenced
>> for new available updates...
> Sounds right. :(
>> Then I also cleaned out the fluff as you suggested to finally go into
>> diskmanager (named differently nowadays).
> Win+R, diskmgr.msc
>
> (IIRC!)
>
>> Here I could resize the Windows partition to 98 GB with 56 GB free.
> You can probably shrink that further with Gparted.
>
> You can do
>
> powercfg /h off
>
> in an Admin Mode command prompt to disable hibernation and Fast Boot.
> You can also probably safely remove the Recovery Partition.
>
>  From Linux, delete c:\pagefile.sys and c:\hiberfil.sys and
> c:\swapfile.sys (if the latter 2 are still there). Delete everything
> in c:\windows\temp too.
>
> Then use Gparted to shrink the partition until it's 75% used. Sounds
> like it's about 43% used at present to me.
>
>> Does it matter which flavour of Ubuntu I run in this case? Mint or the stock
>> version?
> Actual Ubuntu, not Mint. Which desktop shouldn't matter. If you have
> display problems, maybe a lightweight one like Xubuntu or Lubuntu?
>
>> If I do the above with a GUI style Ubuntu, then it will get wiped in thís step,
>> right? So I get my server 18.04 instead like I aimed for.
>> Of course then I will also have to run the do-release-upgrade on that to get to
>> 20.04...
> Aha! It's not upgraded yet.
>
> Well, if you have backups, you could upgrade it first.
>
> Or, see if 18.04 will install -- then the EFI boot files will match versions.
>
>