On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 08:35:05 -0600, pheasant16
wrote:

Have an old box using XP with 5 hard drives full of data that needs
updating due to financial website issues and XP.

Would it be possible to add Win 7 or 10 on an SSD in an PCIE slot to
get a newer operating system and retain most of the integrity of the
current box?

The current MB is probably about 10 years old, MSI 980-G65.

Haven't messed with a build since this one, but thought if possible to
do the above, then I could remove all HD connectors except the SSD get
it booted and then plug all the drives in and let it reassign new
letters to the drives. Then add the programs back to the SSD and away
we go.

If that is possible would I need to tell the bios not to find the old HD
with XP or once it boots into a newer one, would that not be a concern

Thanks for your thoughts.

Mark


Depending on how it's approached, yes -- given present physical
limitations of the CPU, memory, to some extent driver issues -- for an
assessment of whether there are further cost considerations, if at
all, to balance for an actually and what will means to you realize
that performance.

For less than $100/US, for the new MB and 4G memory, I run Windows 7
and XP on four processors of varying costs and considerations. I
currently have at my disposal for three MBs, at a minimum of four and
up to eight cores. Two run between 2 to 2.5GHz, the other two 3.5 to
4GHz.

What that means to me need not mean the same to you. I run drives
through software boot arbitrators, which negate specific hidden-drives
by definition, by ways a BIOS is incapable or unconcerned to effect.
Nor need running XP at 4GHz over eight cores be appreciable to effect
a world processing terminal or fiscal updates.

Were I doing the work and providing function, that did not suit form,
I'd do as you are and sell my slowest processor on my oldest MB to
you. I would encourage your expectations in all regards, except for a
PCIE SSD. I don't promote what I don't have prior experience, which
doesn't mean you may, at least attempt to, disprove my approach: I
find SATA SSD application more than an adequate, to discourage you
from PCIE applicability, as it were, and I was promoting myself for a
paid computer technician to satisfy your needs.