On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:32:59 -0500, Bill wrote:

Your "migration" process was outside my experience--I never
tried to do that,

Assuming prior hardware provisions for compatibility are established
and tested, the binary stream is a directly native contingent to what
underlying OS platform supportively will launch the operation.
Operations may be either Linux and Windows based, among other
possibilities of free or commercial establishment. Over a difference
of two Windows OS platforms, instances range from a 90 seconds'
transfer in one, from a marginal imposition of an "expanded" binary
state, to one operationally then functional, and twice that on the
other. Not especially as fast numerically perhaps to suggest,
overall, than for a supportive efficacy that benefits an OS for one
isolated, generally in practise, from all added stipends of data being
unnecessarily placed within it, where in point better to place
elsewhere for OS links to alternative data sets that occur from other
discrete partitions, e.g. conclusively relegated for nonessential
constituents to a subsequent load to impose upon the binary-streaming
OS process.

Mainstream 1T SDDs at present availability, being also adequate to
modest storage considerations may avail to smaller SSDs, yet serving
for an added convenience when adapted individually to OS transfer
manipulations;- Among practises to the adaptable boot-arbitration
framework and, again, certainly within precepts to OS regeneration
processes.