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

This is proving to be an adventure. Drive cloning softwares generally no longer support XP. They tend to install on a higher Win OS and work directly, or can be used from USB stick.

HP links to methods of direct cloning inside XP are listed as "content was archived" and a blank page.

The only XP cloning software I found was from a German company, Paragon. https://www.paragon-software.com/home/dc-xp/;

148 pages of manual. Going to be a long process.

This XP is my main backup and archive of digital media. It's a Media Center Edition which was quite the rarity and lots of $$ back in the day. Media Center operated like a separate entity inside XP. I don't even know how to get the Media Center files out of the PC for another operating system. I could move it all to Linux, but first step is to backup XP drive.

Oh yes, the reason for posting .... anyone clone an XP drive lately? Got any tips?