How to simulate the process of installing Windows on a specific PC (hardware)?

Question

Iron

The situation is as follows:
There is a server on Windows XP that works 24/7, but the system is already, to put it mildly, asking to be liquidated - services are constantly collapsing, the disk is initially labeled incorrectly, and so on. Access to it is rare and allowed to spend very little time. I would like to create an image of a clean system that is guaranteed to be successfully deployed to this server.
The first option I see is to install on a single HDD, and then configure the system on the home vboxe. This will take about an hour. Wouldn’t it be possible to get by with less losses by looking at some registry branches like “the type of controller and chipset used” in order to put the system on vbox right away, then importing the necessary branches and rolling the image with a high probability on a live machine?
Many may advise Acronis true backup, but based on my own experience, the program can very, very rarely transfer Windows XP from nforce to intel, for example.
Please clarify if I didn't express myself correctly.

Answer 1

Today there are special registry patches for decoupling Windows from Iron, the Internet is to help.

Answer 2

Install Hyper-V. Put whatever you want there. Up to converting your current physical server into a virtual one. For the future, they are protected from changing iron. Put the hypervisor, migrated the guest machine.