Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I
did wonder if I could simply copy the HD on the other PC which runs the
same XP. Like I could do on the Acorns. ;-)

Pretty much, though XP itself won't help you, to do it under Windows you
need something like Acronis or DriveImage or Ghost.

Booting from a live Linux CD or USB stick OTOH would make it a piece of
**** ... fdisk and dd if you like the greybeard method, gparted if you
want the easy GUI method.