At 1/18/2020 10:28 PM, Moose wrote:
>On 1/15/2020 7:34 PM, C.H.Ling wrote:
>>You can still get Win10 upgrade for free, I just upgraded my Win 7 to 10
>>yesterday, so far so good.
>>
>>https://www.cnet.com/how-to/windows-10-yes-you-can-still-upgrade-free-from-windows-7-heres-how/#?ftag=CAD5920658&bhid=20819185968674015470137181229058
>>
>
>As I have a past, and possible future, need for the XP virtual machine in
>Win7Pro, I devised a plan. I cloned my boot drive and swapped the clone in (to
>make sure it works.) Not a bad thing to do anyway, as the drive has been a
>Samsung EVO 840 500G, that now has several years heavy use, and the clone,
>with only a few hours on it while cloning for backup is a Samsung Pro 850 512G.
>
>I'll then need another B-U/clone drive, which is not big deal. If I need the
>XP machine, I can just swap in the old drive.
>
>I have now tried updating to Win10 4-5 times, always failing with the error
>message "0x8007042B - 0x2000D The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase
>with an error during MIGRATE_DATA operation"
>
>There are several solutions proposed, by MS and others, none of which have as
>yet succeeded.
>
>I sure don't want to do a clean, new install. Sooooo much stuff to reinstall .
>. .
>
>Try Try Again Moose
The problem with cloning a drive is also maintaining the original HW for it.
My solution was to use VMWare to virtualize my XP and Win 7 systems from the
drive. That way they can migrate to my newer systems and I can retire the old
HW. The advantage of virtualizing the drive is you can take snapshots of a
clean state that you can revert to if necessary.
It may ask to reactivate, but that always seemed to work OK for me.
A clean reinstall is really the better way to go due to the windows Registry.
Over time I start to see how clunky winXP was.
refusing to become a relic - WayneS
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