So, I need to dual boot my computer into windows. I have been using only zorin for a while but now I need to dual boot for school. I purchased a new drive, so I don’t have to partition my current drive but it is larger than my current drive. Is there an easy way to move zorin onto the new drive and have windows on my current one? Or will I just have to flash zorin onto the new one and then reimage windows onto my current one?

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    boot any distro from a USB

    dd if=/dev/(SMALL DISK) of=/dev/(BIG DISK) status=progress

    Do not target partitions, ie /dev/sda1, but target the disk itself, so all partitions are copied over, ie /dev/sda

    wait for it to finish

    use any partitioning tool to expand the Zorin partition to fill out the remaining space. I like to use gparted.

    Fuck cloning software, just do it yourself. It’s easier.