Arborbridge wrote:I emailed the guy who used to build and maintain the PCs for my company to see if I could drag him out of retirement. The answer was in the negative, but he commented:
"the way I'd cope with your issue would be to clone the existing drive to a larger SSD then it'll run exactly as before. Clonezilla would do that and it's free."
I wouldn't have much of a clue how to translate that into practice, but I'm sure it would be easy to some of you computers whizzes.
I'm not clear if he means buy another machine and do that, or what. In any case, I thought just cloning programs wouldn't work because they need to be "installed".
Arb.
If all you want is what you have, maybe slightly faster and with a larger hard drive it's the way to go.
With older hardware using Clonezilla is relatively easy. It's what was suggested earlier using Macrium, but using Free and Open Source software.
The clue is in the term "Clone". It's a "clone" of the original hard drive and can simply replace the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gTJw8ehkVc&t=28s
Clonezilla at about 10min.
https://clonezilla.org/
https://etcher.balena.io/