Switching from Intel to AMD was relatively stressless, at least for my Win 10 partitions (no OS reinstalling requred). But I still have an Xp partition which won't work on Ryzen. I checked it once and got an instant blue screen. I'd like to use it because there's some software on it which won't run on Win 10 (also on compability mode). So do you think there is a way to get it running?
the host install is screwed if it had a vendor ahci driver installed, stock XP images do not support mobo migration very well.
Thanks for your replies! Yes, in the end a dedicated XP machine would be best, but I'd have to buy case, keyboard, monitor and whatnot. I think the easiest way would be to disband that partition and use Virtualbox. Anyone with good or bad experiences?
Either use HyperV or VMware, VirtualBox should be used only if no other hypervisor can be used. It is painfully slow. The HyperV role is available for Windows 10 Pro or higher, VMware offers its woekstation Player for free afaik. Both hypervisors have assistants and/or ways to convert a disk to a VM. HyperV: https://www.iperiusbackup.net/en/disk2vhd-convert-a-physical-machine-to-virtual-machine-hyper-v-p2v/ VMware: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2005129 Then you can load this virtual disk into your VM as its harddisk.
