Cloning bootable XP disk to new disk

[Asp]

I've had XP installed on my 60GB SSD since about 2014, and somehow it's still my main OS.
I have a more recent drive running Mint I can boot to as well.
With the SSD now in its twilight years, though still no actual errors, I got a new 1TB SSD and tried to clone the XP disk to that.

I used Clonezilla on a bootable thumb drive.
Both old and  new SSDs connected to SATA.
I tried a couple of times using the "disk to disk" option.
One time with  "copy partitions" (I have two partitions on the XP disk, Windows, with programs on another) and one "expand" to fit. But neither case would boot.

I unplugged the original disk and in the BIOS selected to boot from the new disk. It would begin, and then just stop at a screen showing  the XP logo, the next step should be log on, but it never proceeded.
I tried F8 safe mode, it showed the safe mode desktop for a second, then the same frozen logo page.

If I plugged in the old disk as well, then set BIOS to boot from the new disk, after several seconds the original disk would boot.

If I boot from the old disk I can see the new disk and all the files on it, looking fine.
 
Any suggestions, aside from clean reinstall?

 

Edited 53 minutes ago by Asp

[Ben Markson]

The last time I 'cloned' I did a backup of the bootable partition of an HDD and a restore to a new SSD VM. This was from XP to a Linux Mint VM using Macrium Free (v7.1). I was amazed at how well it worked given the hardware changes involved.

Obviously, in my case there were further activation issues with Windows XP in the VM but I didn't do anything special to restore the Macrium backup to the VM.

This was some time ago but I seem to remember the restore is done having booted the VM into some kind of Macrium recovery environment from where you perform the restore.

Prior to that (even longer ago) I used MiniTool Partition Wizard Free (v9.1)'s Copy Disk function to copy an XP HDD to a new HDD. In that case the HDDs and hardware was all identical.

Ben.