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Recovering XP installation from dead laptop

Erdal
By Erdal
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Hi all, 

 

I work at an industrial site and we are having trouble with an old Windows XP laptop which has bespoke software installed on it (used for communicating with control systems).  

 

The laptop has completely died (I suspect a motherboard failure of some sort as there is no response at all), but the hard drive is fine. 

 

We have backups of the data, but we do not have the installation files for some of the programs as these came preloaded with the laptop from the equipment OEM when we took over the site. (The OEM has since been taken over and we have no support contact). 

 

What we are now attempting to do is move the whole installation to a new laptop, but this obviously brings issues of drivers, licensing, compatibility etc. because of the different hardware and I was wondering what the best way to go about this would be. 

 

Thanks

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try using windows 10 pro on the new laptop, enable hyper v and convert the old hard drive into a vhd to be ran on the new laptop. (i know iit is a long winded solution but it was the first thing that came in my head)

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If possible, could you look for another used, identical or very similar laptop to use as a replacement. Anything else is going to be painful and messy. Maybe this is a good time to look at upgrading to more modern, supported systems. 

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Thanks for the replies. 

 

We've got one of the same laptops on order, but until it arrives we are not able to interact with the equipment if there is a problem.

 

Even after swapping the drive to a new laptop, it is a still an old HP nc6400 and we have the risk of the same problem occurring later on, so I'm looking for a way we could transfer it to all new hardware if possible. 

CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.5 GHz; GPU: MSI HD 6950 Twin Frozr; RAM: 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz; SSD: 250 GB  Samsung EVO; Storage: 2x 1TB, 1x 2TB, 1x 3TB; PSU: Corsair AX750; Peripherals:  2x LG 1080p Monitors; Logitech G500; Corsair K70;

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make a copy of the drive (just to be sure) and put it into a different machine. Then use paragon adaptive restore (there's a guide here on the forum) to adapt the windows install to the new machine.

 

 

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