How to transfer Win7 using linux to a disk where the /home partition is already mounted?

Question

linux

There is a dying screw with a capacity of 160 gigabytes, on which Windows 7 lives. There is also an SSD, on which Ubuntu lives, and a 1.5 terabyte HDD, on which 200 gigs at the beginning of the disk were originally cut off for Windows, and the rest of the space was given to / home . Since ubuntu was installed first, Windows did not want to settle for the 200 gigs kindly provided to it on a 1.5 terabyte disk and stubbornly wanted to format this disk first. I didn’t want this, because there was already a certain amount of information that there was simply nowhere to back up. Therefore, I had to settle Windows on an already half-dead small screw.
In recent days, I have been thinking about moving Windows to a 1.5 terabyte, with the allocation of an additional 160 gigs to it and the preservation of the 200 already available to it (there is now a section D :). Thoughts were as follows: using GParted to saw off the required space from /home, move the partition itself to the end of the disk, then move the existing D: partition, and to the beginning of the screw, which is now free and has a size of 160 gigabytes, using the dd command, pour Windows. But I read a little about this method, and realized that not everything is so simple. The suspicion crept in that in this way I could violate the information in the screw partition table, and I would get some difficulties that required dancing with a tambourine in order to regain control over the information. What would not be desirable. In addition, part of the software on Windows has a residence permit on the D: drive, I would not want to get hemorrhoids with reinstallation there either.
In connection with the above, the question is: are there any cultural and calm ways to implement the above plans?

Plan b

So far, only one, not quite delicate way, climbs into my head, let's call it "plan B": backup to the cloud, the format of everything and everything, and installation on a new one. But a computer is needed for work, and an easy-to-work connected implementation of Plan B is absolutely unacceptable!

PS BIOS is not UEFI

Answer 1

If you transfer the entire disk (/dev/sda to /dev/sdb), then, of course, screw the partition table of the target screw. If you transfer one partition (/dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1) - no problems will arise, just make sure that the size of the partitions is the same, or at least the target is not less than the source.

Answer 2

obviously backup
culturally and simply

Answer 3

Religion does not allow installing Windows in advanced mode? There is a section for setting up disks, in which you can manage disks, delete partitions and even put them on boots.
True, this will not work with a disk completely formatted in ext4, then yes, plug. Try in Gparted to split the disk into two logical ones and format the partition under Windows in ntfs.