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Can I install my old drive in my new Mac Pro

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percival504

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I'm moving from a dual core MBP to a hexacore 3.33 Mac Pro (apropos nothing: I am going to install 2 X25-es and 32GB RAM - I expect that it will... umm fly :)).

Can I just install my MBP boot drive in my Mac Pro (as the boot drive)? The MBP drive is based upon the original OS that came pre-installed. As I understand it, when that is the case, the OS will not work on different hardware - for example, I know that you can only use the recovery disk on the computer that it came with - or am I mistaken?

I ask because I am running a little wiki server now (Lion Server), and I cannot find a decent answer about how to migrate it.
 
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minifridge1138

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Jun 26, 2010
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simsaladimbamba said:
If you have the latest 10.6.8 or 10.7.x version installed on that MBP, you will have the drivers for the 2010/11 Mac Pro, thus can use it as boot drive. You could also put the MBP into Target Disk Mode and clone the MBP's HDD onto the MP's HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.
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That's correct.
It accomplishes the same thing as moving the hard drive, but saves you the trouble of physically moving drives.
I believe with a firewire cable you could also use migration assistant on the new computer to copy the users and applications to the new one.
 
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