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I  have just purchased a new hp z2g9 workstation to replace my hp envy 700-230qe desktop tower computer.  The new computer has windows 11 pro preinstalled.  The old computer has windows 10 home installed and is not upgradable to windows 11.  I have numerous programs on the old computer which are "old" but essential.  I cannot reinstall them from scratch on the new computer because of numerous upgrades over the internet (which are no longer available) and age.  I am going to try to move them using pcmover to the new computer, but it may not work.  As a backup solution, I am wondering if I could remove the sata hard drive from the old computer and install it in the new computer as an additional hard drive and then set up a dual boot system in the new computer so that I could access these old programs, if necessary, from the old drive.  If this is possible, how would I go about doing this and how do I set up the dual boot once I have transferred the old hard drive as an additional sata drive on the new computer?  Thanks for ay help.

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the easiest solution is to install win 11 on the new system

 

then install a emulator like vmware's "workstation pro emulator"

 

and have it access the old hard drives' win 10 install

 

https://www.vmware.com/products/desktop-hypervisor/workstation-and-fusion

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