[SOLVED] Transfer LL from laptop to desktop w/ win7 sp1 (side-by-side)

[ukbrian]

I tried out redo for curiosity  and failed!

I backed up a 20 GB Lite partition on my internal 1 TB drive(sdb1) and tried to install it on a 20GB partition on a 250GB external drive(sdb2)

When it asked for a drive to reinstall to and I pointed at sdb2 it threw an error that the drive is smaller than the original.

I would expect an error if the partition was smaller but not the drive.

I don't think it will work for you but!"

I've just used saline-backup to save an ISO type image to a backup file, I then booted the Lite DVD in another machine.

I then installed saline-backup, ran it and restored the backup image to the new machine with a windows install already on it'

During the install it looked at the new HDD and wrote the new grub to the MBR so that on rebooting I could boot into windows or LL.

I'm doing a video of installing/using saline-backup at the moment, I'll then make a post with links to the video and files but I want to use a bog standard new install of LL in the videos.

Check these videos out but the new ones will be shorter.
Creating a backup image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27uXXnM1rVg
Installing the image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcSA3xk7zxA