Windows backup to New Mac

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  1. ajo, Mar 7, 2011

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    My Dad has just ordered a MacBook Pro

    His Windows (Vista) backup is on an external drive. There isnt a whole lot there but is it easy/possible to restore this backup to OSX

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  2. Knoodles, Mar 7, 2011

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    How do you mean? Do you want to use Bootcamp to run windows or do you just want to bring over data from the backup? The latter is very easy.
     
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  3. ajo, Mar 7, 2011

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    I want to just bring the data over from Vista to OSX. It is on an external just using the in built Vista Backup tool.
     
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  4. Knoodles, Mar 7, 2011

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    Drag and drop. Music, photos, documents etc.
     
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  5. ajo, Mar 7, 2011

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    This isn't possible. It looks like the Vista backup tool, saves everything jumbled up into a load of zips.
     
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  6. satcomer, Mar 7, 2011

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    Try to find his "My Documents" in the backup because that will be where most of the personal data in Vista is kept.
     
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