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benno32 - 30 Jun 2007 10:03 GMT

Hello,

I have previously used Virtual PC on my PowerMac G4, It worked great.
It came with windows XP on the install CD.

I now have a Macbook Pro, I wish to run Windows XP natively on my mac
via Bootcamp.
Can I somehow use the Windows XP that came with my Virtual PC?

Regards
-Ben

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Richard Cardona - 30 Jun 2007 13:48 GMT

> I have previously used Virtual PC on my PowerMac G4, It worked great.
> It came with windows XP on the install CD.
>
> I now have a Macbook Pro, I wish to run Windows XP natively on my mac
> via Bootcamp.
> Can I somehow use the Windows XP that came with my Virtual PC?

Like copies of Windows XP that come bundled with PCs, at a substantial
discount off retail, the copy of Windows XP included with Virtual PC is
not transferrable to any other virtualization software or PC.

I recommend selling the whole package and using the proceeds to fund
either a retail copy of XP or Vista.

You can migrate your data (settings, bookmarks, etc) with the Files and
Transfer Wizard (XP) or User State Migration (Vista). Do this before
selling VPC.

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Helpful Harry - 01 Jul 2007 00:04 GMT

> > I have previously used Virtual PC on my PowerMac G4, It worked great.
> > It came with windows XP on the install CD.
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> Transfer Wizard (XP) or User State Migration (Vista). Do this before
> selling VPC.

And before selling the G4 to run Virtual PC and Windows XP on, but it
might be too late for that.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

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