Possible to transfer Boot Camp to new Mac?

[bhaveshp]

I'd like to copy my XP Boot Camp partition from my old MB to new to me MBP. Does Migration assistant do this? Without wiping the current OS install?

[MacMagus]

You can use Boot Camp to make a Windows partition of equal or greater size than the original and then clone from your original Windows partition to the new one.

Warning: Windows will have to be reactivated for the new Mac.

A couple of tools for duplicating a Windows volume:

http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html

http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/

Edit: Read the notes and peruse the forums for each product before using them.

[Ken Sp.]

Nope--think of your boot camp partition as a separate drive. It is formatted as NTFS.

You will need to repartition your new drive with Boot camp and reinstall XP (or see the above post that beat me for the XP migration).

You might want to use Parallels---and it will use your new Boot camp partition XP.

[MGS_forgot_password]

I was able to use the OSX Disk Utility to create an image of the Boot Camp drive, and then put it on a new partition.

[bhaveshp]

Thanks for the pointers. I think I'll give the OSX Disk utility a try to move it to a Boot camp partition on the new machine.