Switch to Bazzite as primary OS (on dual boot)
Hi, I recently installed bazzite and I have been enjoying it so much I am ready to make it my primary OS for gaming. Unfortunately I still need windows in case I want to play some game that is not supported. I have two SSDs, my primary one with windows installed (fast and 2TB) and a second one (slow and 250gb) which has bazzite installed (I wasn't supposed to like it this much). I want to switch so I can have bazzite in my primary SSD and windows on my slow SSD but I do not want to completely wipe the drives since I have been tinkering with both OS and I don't want to start from the beginning. Any ideas to do the switch without wiping data?
Edit: Maybe being too ambitious here but if we can avoid a third drive that would be ideal
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You might need a tool like GParted to copy your windows to the old ssd. And start the dual boot installation guide from there.
GParted websites:
https://gparted.org/
and after you clone your disk
https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/Installing_Bazzite_for_Desktop_or_Laptop_Hardware/
Installing Bazzite for Desktop/Laptop Hardware - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbxM_1ZJCCc this video is based on the docs article
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This helps a lot, I think I will use GParted to clone the windows partition into the old ssd and just install linux from scratch in the good one. Thanks for the recommendation! will try it and share my results
Ended up using macrium reflect on windows, cleaning the old ssd, copying the necessary partitions from the good ssd to the bad one, wiping the good one and reinstalling bazzite on the good ssd. Tried using AOMEI partition assitant and just move the OS but windows had some corrupted files that made that impossible. This was the best/ only way I could make this work.