After posting on a Swedish Mac forum for a copy of Winclone, a nice moderator handed me a link along with an explanation of why I couldn't reach the Winclone site. It turns out that the Swedish telecom operator Telia (my ISP) is in a feud with Cogent (the ISP that hosts the Winclone site), which has caused Cogent to shut down Telia. Phew!
Ok, I started out with installing Winclone on the old machine, and asked it to make an image of my Windows XP Boot Camp partition. I ended up keeping all the default settings, which apparently should allow me to restore the image on an NTFS partition of any size (large enough to hold the amount of data that is in the image, that is).
Next, I transferred the image file to the new machine (by rebooting the old machine in FireWire mode (hold down "T" during boot) and dragging the file. I then started Winclone on the new machine.
According to the instructions in the "readme.rtf" on the Winclone dmg, I should be able to create a Windows NTFS partition using Winclone, that I then could point out as destination for restoring the Windows XP image to. I tried this on the new machine, choosing a partition size of 100 Gb. After some time, I got an error, that stated something in the lines of not being able to resize the partition to the correct size.
Using the command "diskutil list" in Terminal, I see that, sure enough, a partition has been created, but it is only a few hundred bytes large. *sigh*
I shut down Winclone, and start the Boot Camp assistant instead. The assistant asks me if I want to restore the disk to one partition, and I say "Yes please!" It then starts the restore sequence, but hangs, and after 10-15 minutes, I shut down the Boot Camp assistant.
After some random googling, I decide to restore the entire disk on the new machine, and start over, this time using Boot Camp to create the target partition for the Winclone image. I hope it will work better that way...
- I take out the Mac OS X Install Disc 1, and reboots from it (press "C" during startup).
- I open up the Disk Utility from the Tools menu (I think... "Verktygsprogram" is the menu name in Swedish)
- I select the entire disk (not just the volume "Macintosh HD") in the left menu.
- I choose "Mac OS Extended (journaled)" as format and "Macintosh HD" as name and press erase.
- Before long, the disk is erased, and I go back to installing Leopard on it.
- When asked if I want to move information from another computer, I choose this option, and connect the old machine in FireWire-mode.
- I select to move all information except the information on the Windows XP volume, that I will move separately using Winclone at a later stage.
- When installation is done, I have a Mac OS X user on the new machine that is identical to that on the old machine.
- I log into Mac OS X and run the Boot Camp assistant, and create a Windows partition there. It will be in FAT32, but I need NTFS to be able to restore the Winclone image on the partition.
- Since I need to convert the partition to NTFS, I continue in the Boot Camp Wizard, by inserting my Windows XP Pro CD and booting to the installation program. I (this time without trouble :-) ) click myself all the way to the step where I have the option to convert the partition to NTFS, which I do. Right after the conversion, when file copying starts, I shut down the machine, to interrupt the installation. I don't want to install XP now, since I will restore it from the Winclone image anyway.
- Right after restart I hold down the "option"-key, and choose to boot in Mac OS X.
- When logged in, I click on the (...and this is where I got distracted – see disclaimer at the top of this entry)
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