XP to W7 "migration"

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I have an old home PC running XPsp2 and I want to "migrate" the contents of the main hard drive to a new home PC running Windows 7 (with 16GB RAM and two 1TB drives --each drive has two 500MB partitions).

I would like to use Oracle's VirtualBox to create a VM on the Windows 7 PC. To this W7 VM, I would like to restore a backup of the old XP PC.

If I install Acronis B&R v11 Advanced Workstation with Universal Restore on the new W7 PC and I place the old XP PC hard drive into a USB External case, can I create a backup of the USB drive (old PC) and retore the backup on to the W7 VM?

Thanks!

Fri, 11/11/2011 - 23:02
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It's possible with right drivers, but the main challenge may be to reactivate XP on the new hardware. IIRC,with Windows 7 Professional (or better) it's possible to convert an existing Windows XP Professional machine to an XP Mode VM so that it will run licensed correctly like a new XP Mode VM does.

Sat, 11/12/2011 - 12:49