I've been dual booting Windows from 1998 to 2016. (Red Hat + NT 4.0, last was Linux Mint 18 and Win 7).
The last 32 bit Linux Mint is 19.3 and it works fine 2G RAM.
I run 64 bit Linux Mint 20.1 + Mate desktop and used a free MS Tool to image my actual XP laptop and Win 7 pc and have them as files for OpenBox VM on Linux. The tool will work on an EFI/UEFI bios PC as long as the windows is using legacy BIOS mode boot.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...loads/disk2vhd
Untick Shadow Volume
Make sure no AV and no programs running and disable / pause all non-essential services