How To Copy Files From Mac To Boot Camp Partition

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Guest blog by Arun Raj, Parallels Support Team

Transferring Windows From Boot Camp Partition To a New Mac

You need to look at the Boot Camp installation instructions — Boot Camp will even help you print the instructions, since once you create the Bootcamp partition, you.

If you’re reading this blog, chances are you are thinking to buy a new Mac (or already got one, yay!). Apple made it super easy to migrate all your files, applications and settings to the new machines with Migration Assistant. But what if you have a Boot Camp partition on your old Mac with all the Windows programs and files you need? Bad news – it won’t be migrated with Migration Assistant. But there is an easy way out! All you need to do is to import your Boot Camp partition into Parallels Desktop virtual machine and copy it to the new Mac. Yes, it’s that easy! The suggested method will not create a new Boot Camp partition, however you will have access to your old install from within a virtual machine.

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Let me walk you through this three step process.

1. Create a virtual machine based on your Boot Camp partition

Once you have installed Parallels Desktop on your old Mac, you need to create a new virtual machine based on Boot Camp:

• Start Parallels Desktop and choose File > New from the menu.

• Click Use Windows from Boot Camp, and follow the onscreen instructions complete the setup.
• Start your Virtual Machine and let Parallels Tools install for the first time, followed by Windows restart.

2. Import your Boot Camp to the virtual machine

Now you need to physically import Windows into the actual virtual machine.

To do that, follow the steps below:

• Access Parallels Desktop Control Center.

• Right Click on your VM and choose Import Boot Camp.

• Sit back and relax! Parallels Desktop will notify you once the job is done.

Ready to see your virtual machine on your new Mac?

3. Transfer Windows to the new Mac

It is now as simple as a piece of pie to transfer your Windows (Parallels Desktop virtual machine) using an external hard drive or over the network. One of my friends had posted a blog on transferring a Windows VM from old Mac to new Mac. You can find it here. Copy, paste, done!

Your Windows is now all set to run on your new Mac without rebooting in Parallels Desktop.

Was it easy? Setup, import, transfer, go! And voila – Windows you set up in a Boot Camp partition on an old Mac is running in a virtual machine on the new Mac!

I hope this blog, as easy as ABC, will be helpful for you and save a lot of time (by avoiding setting up a brand new instance of Windows). And yeah, are you following us on Twitter?

If you own Intel-based Macs, you can run OS X and Windows on one machine. In fact, it’s been possible to run Windows on a Mac for some time — with agonizing limitations. Near-extinct Mac models were loaded with Virtual PC emulation software could do Windows, too, but the program was painfully slow. Even if you find an old copy of the software, it won’t work with any current Macs.

Boot Camp software from Apple shook up the computing public upon its apocalyptic arrival in April 2006. Boot Camp graduated from beta, or near-finished, status with the arrival of Leopard. Boot Camp Assistant software is stored in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder.

Boot Camp itself is free. You have to supply your own single-disc or downloadable full-install version of Windows; an upgrade disc won’t cut it.

It’s also important to note that you can use a 64-bit version of Windows, Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate), Windows 8, or Windows 8.1. Consult Apple support to see which Mac models are compatible with which versions of Windows. In its current incarnation, Boot Camp isn’t compatible with 32-bit versions of Windows.

Other requirements follow:

• An Intel Mac with OS X version 10.6 or later

• At least 2GB of RAM and 20GB of available space on the Mac’s storage drive that you want to donate to Windows

• A blank CD or USB storage device that you’ll use for Windows software drivers

If you don’t run into snags, the entire installation should take about an hour.

Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 are optimized for a touchscreen environment, though you can use it with a standard mouse and keyboard. For now, Macs don’t support touchscreen computing.

To install Windows 8 via Boot Camp, you still must have a legitimate Windows 8 license from Microsoft and a Win8 installation disc, assuming that you have an optical drive. If you don’t have an optical drive, you may be able to create a Windows installer from an ISO file downloaded from Microsoft on a USB flash drive that’s 8GB or larger.

Because snags are possible, back up all your important information on the Mac’s startup disk.

Basic training

Following are the basic steps to get through Boot Camp:

1. Run Boot Camp Assistant (in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder) to make sure that you have the latest firmware on your computer and to install any support software from Apple that you might need.

   You’ll find any updates at Apple support. If you’re using a portable computer, make sure to connect the power adapter. You will also be given the option to create a Windows 7 (or later version) install disk for which you’ll need a USB flash drive and an ISO image downloaded from Apple.

2. Follow the prompts in Boot Camp Assistant to create a partition for Windows.

   You’re essentially carving out an area of your hard drive for the Windows operating system,. This partition must be at least 30GB and can swell to the total free disk space on hand minus 30GB. If you don’t plan on doing much in Windows, keep the partition small.

   Drag the divider to set the partitions for both OS X and Windows, or click Divide Equally to make equal partitions. You can’t resize a Windows partition after creating it, though you can replace it with a larger Windows partition.

   If you have a Mac Pro with more than one internal hard drive, you can select which drive to partition. If any of this makes you nervous, know that you can remove the Windows partition later and go back to a single-partition Mac.

3. Insert the Windows CD or a USB flash drive with the Windows ISO file and then click Start Installation.

   If you exited Boot Camp Assistant before installing Windows, open it again, choose Start the Windows Installer, and click Continue.

4. When you’re asked to choose the Windows partition, select the partition that says BOOTCAMP.

   You may have to scroll down to see it.

   Don’t erase any partitions that you see or create a new partition here. Failure to heed this warning could wipe out your entire Mac OS X startup disk.

5. (Optional) If you see a listing for Drive Options, click it; otherwise, proceed to Step 6.

6. Reformat the partition by using the Windows installer: Click Format.

   You’re using the reliable and secure NTFS file system, but you won’t be able to save files to Windows from Mac OS X, at least not without a techie workaround.

7. Follow the onscreen instructions to finish installing Windows.

   Boot Camp 5.1 includes several Mac drivers so that Windows will recognize your trackpad, Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, the iSight (or FaceTime) camera, the Eject key on the Mac keyboard, networking, audio, graphics, and so on.

   A Boot Camp Control Panel for Windows and an Apple Boot Camp system-tray item will be added.

As with any new Windows computer, Microsoft requires that you activate your Windows software within 30 days.

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Switching operating systems

You can go back and forth between OS X and Windows on your Mac, but you can’t run both operating systems simultaneously under Boot Camp. Instead, you have to boot one operating system or the other — thus, the name Boot Camp.

Restart your Mac, and hold down the Option key until icons for each operating system appear onscreen. Highlight Windows or Macintosh HD, and click the arrow to launch the operating system of choice for this session.

If you want OS X or Windows to boot every time, choose app → System Preferences, click Startup Disk, and choose the OS you want to launch by default.

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You can perform the same function in Windows by clicking the Boot Camp system-tray icon and selecting the Boot Camp Control Panel. Click either the Macintosh HD or Windows icon, depending on your startup preference.