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 It is not going to be very easy, but the essential process is [[Manual:Upgrading]]. Please keep your old drive in the EXACT state as it was, as you are likely to have to do the whole process a few times before you work out the kinks.
-Your biggest challenge is probably going to import the mysql database, if you haven't done something like that before. You have to get a current MySQL running, then copy the data directories of MySQL from your old drive to your new drive, and then trigger MySQL to update those tables. This is all MySQL tutorials. Hopefully this works in one go, it kind of depends on how old your mysql server was.
+Your biggest challenge is probably going to import the mysql database, if you haven't done something like that before. You have to get a current MySQL running, then copy the data directories of MySQL from your old drive to your new drive, and then trigger MySQL to  those tables. This is all MySQL tutorials. Hopefully this works in one go, it kind of depends on how old your mysql server was.
 Then you have to install MediaWiki 1.35 and PHP 7.4 and get that running. Then swap the configuration to connect to your imported database, then run MediaWiki's upgrader. Then upgrade to MediaWiki 1.39, then upgrade to PHP 8, then upgrade to MediaWiki 1.41