Running windows 7
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Boot Camp has very specific requirements for your Windows disc. You can't just use an already installed OS on another HDD.
With that said, both VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop have options for "P-to-V" conversions, wherein, an existing PC can be transitioned into a virtual machine to run on your Mac.
But once that's done, you can no longer use that other PC without purchasing an additional license of Windows.
If you truly want to dual boot, you'll want to use Boot Camp with a brand new copy of Windows.
With that said, both VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop have options for "P-to-V" conversions, wherein, an existing PC can be transitioned into a virtual machine to run on your Mac.
But once that's done, you can no longer use that other PC without purchasing an additional license of Windows.
If you truly want to dual boot, you'll want to use Boot Camp with a brand new copy of Windows.
So there is no way to copy the windows 7 data onta a partitioned hard drive and boot from the partition?
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Nope. And it has nothing to do with the Mac - you couldn't do it from PC to PC either (unless they were nearly identical, and even then, you would run into activation issues).
could i boot from the hardrive?
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No. Even if you could work around the boot block issues some way, the OS is still tuned to the hardware that it was installed on. So.... drivers would be missing and the OS might not be able to boot at all, and even if it did, it would certainly choke on product activation.
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