Moving Windows Install to iMac

[yustas]

Can someone clarify this for me: Can I use Parallels to move Windows install (including Windows OS and all installed apps) from a Dell machine to my new iMac? Here is a post that seems to be saying it is possible, but there is no clear consensus. Thanks.

 

[balamw]

Both Parallels Transporter and VMWare Converter can take a running Windows machine and make a VM out of it.

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[Quad5Ny]

Just for reference (don't use this for what you want to do), Disk2vhd is a neat program that can snapshot volume and create a VHD out of it. - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415

 

[yustas]

Just for reference (don't use this for what you want to do), Disk2vhd is a neat program that can snapshot volume and create a VHD out of it. - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415

I am not sure I understand, why can't I use it for what I want to do?

 

[Quad5Ny]

Because if VMware & Parallels have software made to dump your existing drive and turn it into a VM. That would be the better choice. You have something that has been tested by those company's instead of a small utility.

Try it out, I can't promise it will work though. I dumped a old laptop drive using disk2vhd and ran it in VirtualBox, it worked but I would get random BugCheck's (BlueScreens) from time to time.

 

[yustas]

Because if VMware & Parallels have software made to dump your existing drive and turn it into a VM. That would be the better choice. You have something that has been tested by those company's instead of a small utility.

What is the name of that software? Are you talking about Parallels or some other program made by Parallels?

 

[Quad5Ny]

Did you read balamw's post?

Both Parallels Transporter and VMWare Converter can take a running Windows machine and make a VM out of it.

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