On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:17:22 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.si...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Do you guys think it is actually feasible? Anybody can suggest >> something easier, smarter? It's a lot of work to do... :-( > > Why do you think this would be a problem? I intend to do this on my > desktop system at some point. I thought I'd just get a new SSD and make > that my boot drive and clone the partitions over but after a little > googling it seems the conversion isn't that difficult. > > For example, these instructions cover the conversion of a Ubuntu + > Windows 10 dual boot system: > https://www.rojtberg.net/1032/converting-a-ubuntu-and-windows-dual-boot- installation-to-uefi/ > > My setup is a little more complicated since I have Debian and Arch in > addition to Windows 10 but I don't expect major issues. Definitely > taking an image of my boot SSD first though.
There is a difference in suggested by your link approach and my requirements. I have reasons to avoid re-installation of my existing Windows 10. The suggested procedure based on fresh install of Windows 10 from from the media created by Microsoft Media Creation tool instead. Thus I would have to convert the existing Win10 install. This is the part in which I was not sure. Actually now I think that it is feasible and even shouldn't be exceedingly difficult. But it would be a time consuming, should be carefully planned. For the reasons I mentioned in my second post, I'm not sure any longer it is worth for me to get engaged in this (unless for the sake of experiment). As I said I can happily live with Windows 10 until the time comes to replace my laptop with a new one. BTW, my setup is in no way simpler than yours. My system is multi-boot: Win10, Debian 10 (my primary OS), Ubuntu, and KDE Neon. I just omitted not relevant details in my original post. :-)
