[Solved] Permanently migrate to Mint from Windows on dual boot

[cdsol]

It's been a week since I have install Mint alongside Windows 10 (dual boot). I have been really happy with how mint works and my system is really liking it. I would like to know how to transfer all my files and get rid of the Windows partition completely. Would really appreciate someone's help.

[JerryF]

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inxi -Fxz

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sudo parted -l

If you could, a snapshot of the disk from Gparted would be great!

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[Pierre]

you can either copy the Files on the Windows System, to an usb HDD,
or even copy those Files to your LinuxMint Home directory ..
or even to Both.

once you've done that, you then can decide what to do with the Windows partition:
- Format that partition,
- Delete that partition,

[linux-rox]

It's been a week since I have install Mint alongside Windows 10 ...

IMHO, a week is much too soon to be certain Linux will work for you. Do you have a pressing need for the disk space? If not, leave Windows where it is for at least a few months (even a year). Then, have a plan for what you're going to do with the space before kicking Windows out of the house.

[cdsol]

Please give us some information about your computer.

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inxi -Fxz

and

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sudo parted -l

If you could, a snapshot of the disk from Gparted would be great!

Please use code tags when pasting the results from Terminal commands. If you're not sure how to do so,

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Press and hold the Ctrl key, then press the letter c
Open the program called Terminal
In Terminal's menu, click on Edit, then Paste
Press Enter
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Then click on Edit, Copy
In your forum reply window, click on the code tag button.
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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-70-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa 
  base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-bs1xx 
  v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 832A v: 23.38 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.22 
  date: 07/24/2017 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 18.0 Wh condition: 18.0/41.6 Wh (43%) 
  model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8250U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 28800 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 
  3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 3840x2160~30Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-70-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
  v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 31.74 GiB (3.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPVX-60JC3T1 
  size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 347.38 GiB used: 31.67 GiB (9.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 261 Uptime: 4m Memory: 7.69 GiB used: 1.28 GiB (16.6%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 
  inxi: 3.0.38 

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Model: ATA WDC WD10JPVX-60J (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  274MB   273MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 2      274MB   290MB   16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 3      290MB   603GB   603GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 6      603GB   983GB   380GB   ext4
 4      983GB   984GB   1028MB  ntfs         Basic data partition          hidden, diag
 5      984GB   1000GB  15.8GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          hidden, msftdata

[cdsol]

It's been a week since I have install Mint alongside Windows 10 ...

IMHO, a week is much too soon to be certain Linux will work for you. Do you have a pressing need for the disk space? If not, leave Windows where it is for at least a few months (even a year). Then, have a plan for what you're going to do with the space before kicking Windows out of the house.

Yes, my laptop HDD is 1 TB and my PS4 HDD is 500GB. I don't need so much disk space on my laptop and my PS4 disk is almost full. So I am planning to swap the HDDs with each other.

[JerryF]

Since you're planning to swap the disks, I'd backup the important data from the Windows partition, clean out the 1 TB so it's usable for the PS4, then reinstall Linux on the swapped 500 GB.

[linux-rox]

So I am planning to swap the HDDs with each other.

Same advice. At a minimum, I recommend you make an image backup of the Windows system, so you can restore it if you decide Linux isn't working out after all. If you don't have a favorite image backup app handy, the tool in Control Panel > Backup & Restore > System Image is very good. No compression but image size is equal to used space only. Notice you need a Recovery USB Drive or System Repair Disk to restore. Better still, IMHO, would be to restore the image to the 500 GB drive now, so you're again dual booting while learning Linux, but that's your choice.