Alan_Surry
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Hi. Good evening everyone and thanks for the add. For my sins, I work in I.T. with Windows. I've dabbled with Linux several times over the last 20 years or so, but never really had the time to get really involved untill now. I've been using Linux Mint on two laptops, both dual booting Windows 7 Pro. I'm now more than convinced that I don't need Windows so I need to do the following:
A) Delete Windows and reinstall the grub boot menu leaving Linux Mint intact.
B) Backup the Linux Mint partition and restore it to a new laptop with dfferent hardware
A) I'm assuming that deleting the Windows partition and resizing the Linux partition wil be easy enough using gparted, I'm not sure about the boot menu
B) I use AOMIE Backupper to perform universal Windows system backups that restore Windows to different hardware. What I need to know is if its possible to do this with Linux Mint. I.E. Can I backup a Linux partition and restore it to a different machine? Is it dependent on device drivers as Windows is? If so, is there a workaround?
Or: Is it possible to create a new linux install and restore a bunch of programs in one go similar to Android or Mac restores?
Any advice would be appreciated. I can and will perform a clean install if I must, but I'd be far happier if I can do it the easy way.
Thanks in advance.
Al.
A) Delete Windows and reinstall the grub boot menu leaving Linux Mint intact.
B) Backup the Linux Mint partition and restore it to a new laptop with dfferent hardware
A) I'm assuming that deleting the Windows partition and resizing the Linux partition wil be easy enough using gparted, I'm not sure about the boot menu
B) I use AOMIE Backupper to perform universal Windows system backups that restore Windows to different hardware. What I need to know is if its possible to do this with Linux Mint. I.E. Can I backup a Linux partition and restore it to a different machine? Is it dependent on device drivers as Windows is? If so, is there a workaround?
Or: Is it possible to create a new linux install and restore a bunch of programs in one go similar to Android or Mac restores?
Any advice would be appreciated. I can and will perform a clean install if I must, but I'd be far happier if I can do it the easy way.
Thanks in advance.
Al.