"Transporting" desktop hard drive to Macbook

[curtishall]

I'm getting my wife a Macbook and I'd like to "transport" her windows desktop (3.5 IDE drive ) to her laptop. Is this possible over a network connection?

 

[John@Parallels]

Yes, it is possible, what you need:
1. Installation CD with integrated Service Pack the same level as installed on PC
Process is called slipstreaming
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html
2. Either use Parallels Transporter agent http://www.parallels.com/en/download/file/v3/en/GA/Parallels-Tsp-3.0.1456-Win.exe (you need to install Transporter agen)
and perform operation as described in http://www.parallels.com/en/download/file/doc/Parallels_Transporter_User_Guide.pdf by migrating from Windows to PC
3. Or use the same Windows Transporter and perform inplace migration (to external attached disk) and copy VM to Mac