Can You...

[smoge]

Can you clone your HDD/SSD of a Windows PC on a external HDD/SSD and then boot from the HDD/SSD on a mac.

 

[balamw]

Can you clone your HDD/SSD of a Windows PC on a external HDD/SSD and then boot from the HDD/SSD on a mac.

Not quite, but you can use Parallels Transporter or VMWare Converter to take a working PC and make a Virtual Machine out of it.

There are two main problems.

1) getting all the hardware sorted out (which parallels/VMWare help with).
2) licensing. Most licenses of Windows are OEM and are tied to the machine they shipped with. Again, virtualizing helps with this somewhat.

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