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bucolic_frolic

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10. Thanks for your thoughts!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #9)

Wed Jun 22, 2022, 12:36 PM

Jun 2022

Brothers are great sometimes! Sometimes not, too.

Although only 2 cores, it still runs, and they say it will run Win10 and Linux Mint 20 as well. I upped the RAM to 8Gb, and the cpu from 1.87 to 2.7. The old motherboard does concern me though.

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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

Pull the drive. Clone using another computer or external cloning machine. Earth-shine May 2022 #2

+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

I had an HP Media Center Edition running XP. My brother decided I didn't need it, mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2022 #9

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