dennis@home wrote
Jeff Layman wrote

Not from his OP - there was no mention of a backup,
hence my cautionary approach concerning the HDD,
and the (snipped) paragraph about creating backups.

A new computer is an opportunity to test the backups in anger.

There is no anger involved.

An opportunity that shouldn't be missed.

Not much point when an hard drive is involved in the backup destination.

Take the latest backup and restore all the
data onto the new machine and check it.

Then start the backups on the new machine and check
them before you do anything to the old machine.

Rather pointless now.