Clone XP HDD to Bootcamp

I'm also looking to achieve the same thing. I was successful in loading windows to a partition from a backup image, but that partition doesn't boot.

In what format is your cloned hard drive? I assume you have an image file .iso .dmg or soemthing. I recommend using Disk Utility to restore the partition from that. Be sure to select the image and then choose menu option Images --> "Scan Image for Restore" before you restore the image to the partition.

Acronis doesn't work. Ghost doesn't. Apple uses GPT and PC clones won't restore, well they may but you won't have Apple Boot Camp, you'll have a PC basic partition.

XP isn't the large to install. And Windows 7 is fast and a breeze. I'd say welcome to 2010 and ditch 8 yr old technology.

Trying won't be worth it. Just start over with your Win installation. Afterwards, clone it using WinClone. Then, in the future, you will be able to clone back if you need to.

Yes, I recently used winclone (http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/) to double the size of my windows partition. WONDERFUL little piece of software. Highly recommend it.

@jconn5:

Here is an "overview" of how to do this. If you're not an advanced user, you'll need to research more or wait for other users to elaborate.

1) use Boot Camp Assistant to allocate the new space for Windows. Cancel the process after it completes.

2) on your current Windows installation, add an entry in c:\boot.ini that references the location of the boot camp partition you just created on your Mac. This allows you to boot windows from the new location after its moved. This is typically partition 3 on most Macs. Run "diskutil list" in Terminal on your Mac to isolate the new partition number Windows will boot from. then, add this line to boot.ini:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Boot Camp" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

3) run SysPrep in Windows to allow it to be cloned. This is complicated and beyond the scope of my answer, so research it well.

4) connect your hard drive that contains Windows to your Mac and use Disk Utility to create a backup image of the windows partition.

5) follow these steps (except for #1 which you already did) restore your Boot Camp partion from your backup image and make it bootable: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10835653

I'm migrating a Windows installation from VMWare Fusion to Bootcamp today and just came across this. Hope it helps you with SysPrep: http://wiki.williams.edu/display/docs/Sysprep