Can I swap my old macro drive into my new machine

I havea Early 2008 MacPro, and am just about to buy the latest (2010) model
Can I take the drive out of my old Mac Pro and pop it into the new one, to save transferrig everything across?
Johnny

It's a crap shoot. It probably won't work (different hardware). But it shouldn't hurt to try. Don't know what Linc is thinking about it not being "advisable". If it doesn't boot, or hangs with a gray screen, or hangs attempting to login, then you will know.
But you could boot in your new machine's boot drive and use migration assistant to move stuff from the old to the new.

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