[SOLVED] Transfer LL from laptop to desktop w/ win7 sp1 (side-by-side)

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So I had a BFO (Brilliant Flash Of the Obvious)
>The LL live boot disk I made was for the laptop 32 bit.
> Made LL live boot disk in 64 bit.
> Tried Fixparts again. It ran this time - it didn't ask me anything - it closed. I'm thinking that since the desktop only has a stand-alone /sda is the reason for this behavior. ?

If FixParts didn't find any stray GPT data, then apparently that wasn't the problem and you did right thing to close out of it.  We're probably missing something simple here, but I'm not sure what that is yet.

So I had a BFO (Brilliant Flash Of the Obvious)
>Still see /sda with System GPartEd - nada, nitch, nil with Install GPartEd.

Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.  Are you choosing the "Something else" installation type and then seeing the blank partitioning screen?  My last guess is that you're doing that, but maybe it shows up blank because the shrink hasn't been done yet -- therefore it doesn't see anywhere available to install to and just shows a blank screen.  (Purely a guess -- I've not done a side by side install without first preparing partitions, so not sure how installer reacts when doing what I just described.)  If guess is right, then as soon as you shrink the Windows "C:drive" partition and have unallocated space on the drive big enough to install to, your problem may disappear.