How to migrate Boot Camp Vista Partition to new Mac

Hi there,
I've been working with Vista on my iMac 24" (Core2Duo 2,8GHz 2007) using a Boot Camp partition. I'll be migrating to a 27" Quad-Core iMac soon. Does anybody out there know if there's a smooth and simple way to also migrate the Boot Camp Partition without new installing Vista OS and Windows Apps?
SL 10.6.2 on old and new iMacs. Any info appreciated.

I figured graphics drivers would be an obstacle...just talked to a friend and got some advice:
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2. Restart Windows 7 with default graphics drivers. Download ATI Desktop drivers, modify using ATI MobilityModder, install modified drivers.
It works.
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Isn't there a simpler way without purchasing software I will only use once? I'd rather just reinstall Vista and the other software manually than pay anything over $20 to do it.
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My apologies. I didn't make myself clear. I followed the proper procedure and got the error message. I tried the other formatting to see if it would help. All the same results.
I found a possible solution on another Apple thread. I am going to move the drive to have Vista installed moved to the first stall on my Mac Pro 1.1. It is claimed that this will bypass the issue of GP if do that. Then after installation I can switch them back.
I will post the results. I had no issue the first two times I did this since using Bootcamp when I first got this Mac Pro over 7 years ago.

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yesterday i reinstalled my leopard due to some issues. After this act i recovert my data using my Time Machine backup device.
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I'm trying to install WinXP SP2 on a drive in bay three of my new Mac Pro (with four internal drives). The boot camp instructions state that a boot camp installation should be done only on a drive in the lowest available numbered bay and that I should remove all the drives in the lower numbered bays in order to do the install. If my OS X system and the boot camp utility are on the hard drive in bay 1 and I'm trying to do an install on a drive in bay 3, this presents a problem. Apple tech support suggested that I swap the drives in bay 1 and 3 prior to the install and then swap them back, which I did. This seemed to work. The startup disk control panel in OS X seems to have no trouble dealing with setting my startup disk to either Mac OS X (in bay 1) or Win XP (in bay 3) after the drives were swapped back. However, I have problems on the windows side. The boot camp control panel in Win XP lets me set Mac OS as the startup disk but I get a permanent black screen at startup requiring me to hold in the power button to shut off the computer and then restart it. Afterwards, I can't start up in OS X unless I hold the option key down at startup and manually pick OS X. I can then reset the startup disk to the OS X in the Mac OS startup disk control panel but this never works from inside XP.
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2. Is the hard drive swap trick I did above confusing the boot camp control panel in XP so that it can't figure how to set Mac OS X (switched back to bay 1) as the startup disk? If the disk swap trick is causing the problem, is there another way to do a boot camp install on a drive that is not in the lowest numbered drive bay?
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However, that was before I learned that the Boot Camp drivers was now on a separate, PC-only partition on the DVD. So while my backup copy works great to install Leopard, I have no backup of the Boot Camp driver CD.
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Hi Stefan,
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my question! Although I think your steps will "work", per se (and I will try them out as soon as I can), I'm something of a purist in regards to my backups and so this method seems a little hackish as opposed to a process that actually images the volume in question (I'm also curious from a technical perspective, as the Boot Camp Assistant Beta used to allow for a dedicated MacintoshDrivers disc to be burned from it—I liked that method better, to be honest).
Thanks again! I'll keep checking back here for other comments, and will let you know how the method you suggested works out.
Best wishes,
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