How can I transfer a whole hard drive of xp to mac, How can I transfer a whole hard drive of xp to mac

Hello, my dilemma is I have a laptop with windows xp and all of my personal files and games and I want to donate the laptop to relative and I wondered if I had a  chance of basically mirroring the hard drive to a partition onto my MacBook.
Thanks
Ps, would I need any driver for anything? I'm a is it of a novice when it comes to bootcamp.

Paragon Drive Copy Pro may be able to help you. From their spec sheet you can migrate your PC to a virtual environment like Virtual Box or VMwareFusion. I would contact their support and find out if there are any issues with Mac OSX.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/dc-professional/features.html

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