Migrating XP Drive to new computer

[John Wolf]

My folks may get a Mac desktop, but have been using the same XP based PC for
5 years. Hard drive was upgraded and the old files were copied over using
certain software I cant think of right now (Laplink) or something else. The
new Macs have Intel chips and my folks can run both Mac & Windows on one
machine. They could in theory copy their old drive to a new partition on the
Mac and I believe Boot camp can partition on the fly and no need to reformat
and use Disk Utility. They could either boot into each OS, or run each OS on
the same desktop (as what some third party OSX software can accomplish)
kinda like the way Classic runs on my Tiger based PPC G4 Mac I believe that
Parallels desktop will do the trick but it is quite expensive.

http://media.parallels.com/video/STM/demo/us/?source=google_us&gclid=CKjI2Ne
pkp0CFVRc2godjjac0g

Any more tips on the transfer? Thanks..

John

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[philo]

John Wolf wrote:
> My folks may get a Mac desktop, but have been using the same XP based PC for
> 5 years. Hard drive was upgraded and the old files were copied over using
> certain software I cant think of right now (Laplink) or something else. The
> new Macs have Intel chips and my folks can run both Mac & Windows on one
> machine. They could in theory copy their old drive to a new partition on the
> Mac and I believe Boot camp can partition on the fly and no need to reformat
> and use Disk Utility. They could either boot into each OS, or run each OS on
> the same desktop (as what some third party OSX software can accomplish)
> kinda like the way Classic runs on my Tiger based PPC G4 Mac I believe that
> Parallels desktop will do the trick but it is quite expensive.
>
> http://media.parallels.com/video/STM/demo/us/?source=google_us&gclid=CKjI2Ne
> pkp0CFVRc2godjjac0g
>
> Any more tips on the transfer? Thanks..
>
> John
>




First off, you can only have one copy of XP per machine

and under no circumstances could an OEM version be transferred.


Secondly, you'd need to have an image of the OS as "copying" the files
is not enough to transfer the OS

Third: The OS will not work anyway, due to different H/W and a repair
install would be required..and though that usually works...there's no
guarantee


So...if they really think they need to continue to use XP...
maybe they don't even need a new Mac. Don't see any reason why not keep
using XP

[Patrick Keenan]

"John Wolf" > wrote in message
...
> My folks may get a Mac desktop, but have been using the same XP based PC
> for
> 5 years. Hard drive was upgraded and the old files were copied over using
> certain software I cant think of right now (Laplink) or something else.
> The
> new Macs have Intel chips and my folks can run both Mac & Windows on one
> machine. They could in theory copy their old drive to a new partition on
> the
> Mac and I believe Boot camp can partition on the fly and no need to
> reformat
> and use Disk Utility. They could either boot into each OS, or run each OS
> on
> the same desktop (as what some third party OSX software can accomplish)
> kinda like the way Classic runs on my Tiger based PPC G4 Mac I believe
> that
> Parallels desktop will do the trick but it is quite expensive.
>
> http://media.parallels.com/video/STM/demo/us/?source=google_us&gclid=CKjI2Ne
> pkp0CFVRc2godjjac0g
>
> Any more tips on the transfer? Thanks..
>
> John

Unfortunately, your idea won't work in theory or practice. You can't just
copy the files and end up with a bootable OS; the boot files do not go to
the right places. Attempting this is simply a waste of time.

And if you managed to get an image onto the partition and get it to try to
start, errors will immediately appear because the expected hardware will be
absent and you'll have to reinstall, so you might as well just do it
properly the first time. It will be faster and more reliable.

Finally, you can't use an XP license that exists on another system (Except
for Volume Licenses, which start in sets of five). The second install will
fail activation, and if you call to get it activated, you will cause the
first one to fail. And you can not legitimately move an OEM license; these
are tied to the first system they are installed on, and live and expire with
that system.

HTH
-pk