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Windows XP - Transfer from one MP to the Other

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Catch Them

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Hello - I currently have one 2.66 MP from 2007 that i purchased for myself and a few months ago i got a 2.8 specifically for at work and since now i own both and dont need one or the other on the job, id kind o fhate to waste all this great power.

at any rate...the 2.66 has my Windows XP Pro installation on it...i was wondering is it at all illegal, or difficult to (IF i do sell the 2.66 macpro) pull that drive and slap it into the 2.8 MacPro?

im going to make a bootable clone with WinClone before i do this.

so are there any best ways or methods of going about this?



thank you in advanced!
 
You'd think it would be easy. I did the exact same thing when transferring my XP partition from my old Macbook Pro into my new Macbook. However, none of the drivers work in XP, and I can't get anything work (wireless, bluetooth, audio, etc.).

Not happy as of right now
 
well i think it might be a tad different between a MBP and MB compared to a MacPro to a MacPro.


with the MBP to MB, i think its probably that removing the old drivers and doing a reinstall of the bootcamp 2.1 drivers


im going to try this in a few weeks when i get back home from vacation.
but from what i understand ... it should work fine should just uninstall the drivers then einstall them after the i put thew cloned drive in and just do the reactivision.
 
yeh uninstall the drivers and then reinstall the new drivers you get with your new Mac Pro.

also you can restore a Windows NTFS partition with Disk Utility its just you need to have a ready available clean NTFS formatted partition which you can do natively with Disk Utility.
 
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