Can I 'move' my current Win XP Pro sytem into boot camp?

Searched high and low, but haven't been able to find an answer to this.
Can I 'move' my current Windows XP Pro SP2 installation into the Boot Camp Partition of one of the new iMacs?
By 'move' I mean something like ghosting/backing up the current C drive and then restoring it into the boot camp partition.
I'm relatively tech savvy (at least on the Windows side) so fiddling with / re-installing drivers etc shouldn't be a problem (as long as Windows comes up and recognizes at least the keyboard)
Thanks

You should download and play with Parallels Desktop for Mac. Not as a final solution, but as an in between. they have some utilities for moving Windows machines and images into virtual machines and also utilities for moving between virtual machines and boot camp - so some combination of those might be the solution you're looking for.
Personally, I just run XP and Vista in Parallels - it works perfectly.
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/

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