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1. Easeus To Do backup should do it and its free

Sun May 29, 2022, 08:05 PM

May 2022

As long as the data on the drive or the physical drive itself is not corrupted it doesn't matter what OS is on the drive. I would strongly recommend creating a drive image on a backup drive then clone your new drive from that image.

https://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/clone-resource/free-disk-cloning-software.htm

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Cloning an old HP Windows XP computer to a duplicate hard drive [View all] bucolic_frolic May 2022 OP

Easeus To Do backup should do it and its free Cheezoholic May 2022 #1

+1 canetoad May 2022 #3

Get all your Data copied off before you do anything. Nictuku May 2022 #4

I've used Paragon, it is good software cor this Nictuku May 2022 #5

Yes, thanks for the ideas bucolic_frolic May 2022 #7

I found another cloning software, and this one is very simple bucolic_frolic May 2022 #6

Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2022 #8

Thanks for your thoughts! bucolic_frolic Jun 2022 #10

Mine was pretty old. There's no way mine could have handled Windows 10. mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 #11