I have an old Core2Duo computer with XP SP3 and last week decided to upgrade the HD to a SSD.
Didn't want to use imaging software so I just downloaded the latest Windows 11 64bit ISO from Microsoft. Put in on a bootable usb stick and booted the XP computer from it.
In the startup options selected cmd prompt, used diskpart to partition a single primary 128GB partition (full size of ssd), aligned to 1MB (sector 2048), made active and formatted quick as NTFS. Exited diskpart and then ran bootsect /nt52 D: /mbr (d: is ssd drive letter)
Then ran the following Robocopy command:
Robocopy c:\(source xp drive) d:\(new ssd drive) /E /COPYALL /DCOPY:DATE
Took about 20 minutes to copy all files from old 80GB HD to the new SSD.
I ran a sha-1 hash checker on all files from the hard drive and then on the SSD, all matched, no missing
Took out the old hard drive and booted from new SSD. All working and the XP machine is now much faster.
I'm posting the above because I have read over the years and looked over old posts that mention cloning XP with Robocopy can cause problems. Nothing specific is mentioned though, just not to do it and use cloning software instead.
So what is the correct way, is the above fine to clone an XP drive to a newer drive or will I get problems in the future.