To take my old laptop running windows, create an image of it, and restore it to a bootcamp partition so my old windows laptop is on my mac?
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Actually you can do that (full partition copy) with ghosting option but I dont know if you can do this on a Mac...
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Possible, yes. But since it's a different computer with different hardware, it's best to do a clean install and use Windows Easy Transfer to transfer your user accounts, files, and settings.
If you restore a partition image from another computer and boot it, it will find lots of hardware devices missing and lots of new devices. That may all sort itself out once you install the Boot Camp driver package. Then again, it may not. I've had mixed results when upgrading CPU & mainboard on a desktop computer while keeping the existing HDD, which is similar to what you're proposing. And you'll have to re-activate Windows anyway.
Is this possible...
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by joer80, Jun 14, 2012.