need help: 1995 dell (xp) hdd clone to new system

[thehunter1002]

hey, i am trying to help an older lady fix her 1995 dell (wxp). i got the system to work(but is almost repulsively  slow), but am trying to upgrade her system with an workstation i got from my workplace. the hdd from the 1995 system is IDE, i cloned the drive to a new drive, SATA, but when i plug it into the new work station it blue screens when i try to boot to safe mode or normal. i am assuming it is a cpu driver issue or something else. i dont want to do a fresh install of window 10 for 2 reasons: they wouldn't know how use it, and dont want to lose their files. is there a way to do a fresh install of xp, and then add there users and files as if it was cloned? any insight would be greatly appreciated to me and to her.

[Spakes]

You can use LiveCD/LiveUSB or current OS to back up all necessary files, then go for XP.

Cause of BSOD could be that there is no SATA support in chipset drivers (IMO). Plus IDE drives are notorious when they are replugged for some weird reason...

Plus there should be Windows Boot Manager on that drive.

[thehunter1002]

i finally got it to work, had to go into bios and change the HDD emulator to IDE to get XP to work. first time diving into XP, i am 23 and started messing with pc's in the windows 7 days. Thanks for ya help!