Legacy PC Migration Wizard

Safely clone an aging business PC—including the boot partition—to new hardware for non-technical shop owners

Problem

After taking over a hotel, a relative found the management software on the old PC had no installer and only runs on that machine. Boot takes over 30 minutes, memory reporting is broken, and the disk can't be touched for fear of losing the software forever. They need a safe way to clone the entire disk, including the boot partition, but have no actionable guidance and no guardrails.

Solution

A migration wizard for non-technical small business owners: it detects boot mode, partition table, and disk health on the target machine, recommends a cloning plan, generates ready-to-run ddrescue/Clonezilla commands or boot media, verifies the clone, and walks through the disk swap step by step—with a mandatory back-up-first checklist.

Users

Small business owners, hotel and restaurant operators, sole proprietors inheriting old PCs, and tech-savvy relatives helping them.

MVP

Detect disk and partition info; one-click Clonezilla boot USB creation; wizard-generated clone commands; post-clone hash verification; illustrated disk swap and boot test steps.

Revenue

Open-source core plus a $9.9 one-time guided desktop version; or paid remote-assist sessions.

Why now

Many small businesses still depend on old line-of-business software with no installer, and aging hardware is being replaced in waves. Existing open-source tools are too technical for this audience, so a friendly wrapper is a real gap.