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The support department, after a 70 minute wait for the “legacy XP support team”, claimed they “don’t do activation, period” and transferred him back to activation team. Long story short… The Microsoft activation team (on six different calls, insisting on talking to a supervisor three times) (a) confirmed the key WAS perfectly valid (being fresh, legit copy of XP) so it was a “support” issue related to the disk image coming from an OEM machine. Windows kept reporting “Incorrect Product Key”. He ran Parallels Desktop on his Mac, and started the Windows XP virtual machine.Īs expected, Windows said it needed to be re-activated.Īctivation failed. On his Mac, then he installed Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac. On his Mac, he ran Parallels Transporter on his Mac, connected his external hard drive when prompted, and migrated his PC apps/data to a folder on his Mac. (BTW using a hard drive was much faster than using the networked transport, plus gave his an extra backup image copy “just in case”.)

Then he ejected the hard drive and removed the USB cable. On his PC, he downloaded the Parallels Transporter Agent for Windows (free), hooked an external hard drive to his PC, and used Transporter Agent to copy his entire Windows hard disk to an image on the external hard drive.

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when you buy a PC from them) to a second PC without buying a new license he also bought a fresh, legit, “full” Windows XP Pro with activation key, so he could use that “full” key to activate his migrated copy of Windows. So he also bought Parallels ($80) and Parallels Transporter ($10) for his Mac.Īnd since he was pretty sure it violates the Microsoft terms to “move” an OEM copy of Windows (such as supplied by Dell, Toshiba, etc.

#Parallels transporter agent install#

And he didn’t want to have to re-install several dozen applications, not to mention hundreds of PC settings, on a fresh install of Windows XP. He bought a new Macbook Pro, and since he had a considerable investment in Windows versions of applications like Adobe CS2, he did not want to have to buy new versions (Adobe doesn’t offer upgrades from CS2 to the current CS). I should stress that as he and I understand the license rules, he was required to buy a second, new, “full” (non-OEM) version of XP, which he did. Summary: After spending 4+ hours on phone ‘support’ with Microsoft (I know because I tried to help him communicate the problem to no avail), a friend recently discovered the trick to moving his laptop Windows XP Pro (an OEM version provided by the laptop maker) over to a Parallels virtual machine - WITH all applications, settings, data intact.