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Hola. Straight question. I bought this and want to do a full backup on a machine working on its 13th year. Its getting wonky. Can i do a full back up bootable and restore this to a brand  new bare machine? It says i can, i think, but i am being told no, that is not how it will work.

 

Thanks in advance.

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Miqui

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Technically yes, it's possible.

However,

1) does the new hardware support XP and have XP drivers for it?  If not, this may be a sticking point.  Most new systems will not support XP as newer hardware is not being developed with older XP drives in mind

2) does the new hardware support your existing SATA mode (for instance, if your 13 year old system is IDE only in the SATA mode for the bios, most new motherboards no longer support IDE)

3) does the new hardware support legacy/csm mode? Almost all new systems are built as GPT/UEFI.  However, many (but not all), will allow you to disable secure boot and enable CSM/legacy mode.  If you buy a system that is striclty UEFI only (as an example, I have an ASUS T200 Transformer that is 100% UEFI and has no legacy/CSM options in the bios), then you'd be out of luck.

4) what type of license do you have - OEM or retail?  If you only have an OEM license that came with the original sytem, it won't license on the new one.  

So yes, it's technically possible, but there are options and considerations with your new system and user settings in the bios you may need to enable before you can perform such an OS transfer.  XP is the absolute worst when it comes to transfering an OS to new hardware as it is so old and limited with drivers.  I'm not really sure why you would buy a new hardware, designed to run with Win 10 and try to force a 13 year old system onto it unless you had absolutely no other choice.  You're probably better off biting the bullet and getting your new system, configuring it the way you want it and transferring your data over.  13 years is a heck-of-a-run, but technology is passing you by.  

If your concern with Windows 10 is "personal safety" or not sharing data - you gave that up the moment you joined your system to the Internet.  If you use Google or Apple products, you're already sharing your information with them too.  Microsoft isn't doing anything else that most other software vendors aren't doing already.  If it was that bad, the Fedreral government wouldn't use Windows, but that's pretty much what the majority of them are using and since Windows XP is no longer offering SECURITY patches, I can also guarantee you that the government and most businesses, are no longer using XP, except for in cases where they still have extended support, or absolutely no other choice. 

Personal safety and privacy are not on my list of concerns. Been in this business too long to beleive you have any. :-) 

Its a program that was discontinued years ago and will not run on anything in any configuration i have tried except SP2. I wanted someone to build something similar but none of these new code jockeys can or are willing to make it. You are right though. I cant do baremetal restore. I forgot the UEFI coup. Going to figure out a configuration on VM and boot from ex media to that. See if that will work.
 

Thanks anyway for your time and input.

VM is probably the way to go.  You should be able to take a full disk image of your current system and restore that image to a virtual hard drive in Virtual Box or VMware workstation (I do this in my test environment pretty regularly) with Windows 10 and it usually "just works".  However, with XP, as the base OS, you may need to run universal restore after the backup image has been deployed to the VM.  IF/when you deploy to the VM, make sure the VM bios matches your original OS install as well (legacy or UEFI - guessing legacy since it's 13 years old).  Vmware used to default to legacy and if you wanted UEFI you had to manually edit one of the config files.  However, now, it's part of the gui option when deploying.  I havent' used Virtual Box in awhile, but it should default to Legacy/Bios mode as well and seems like is supports UEFI now too.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html