Thank you, that sounds good, is a "thumbs up" (my doubts were mainly
with the "making executable" stuff and suspecting "windows facies").
Before going to dd, I will try partitioning my new disk with gparted (or
the Mageia ISO) - do all the disk layout re-arrangements I can think of
and than copy individual file-systems with tar - should be substantially
faster since it skips all unused space - for the windows partition that
would give
cd /media/windows ; tar cf - . | (cd /<new-windows-path>; tar xf -)
