Mac Pro boot drive migration advice needed.

I have a new Mac Pro.  I would like to simply pull the boot HD of my old MP (a 1.1), and stick it in the new one (a 5.1 hex).  Bad idea?

lahz wrote:
I have a new Mac Pro.  I would like to simply pull the boot HD of my old MP (a 1.1), and stick it in the new one (a 5.1 hex).  Bad idea?
I did what you're asking about using the same hardware and found that it booted just fine. However, I immediately ran a Lion upgrade and that Lion boot disk has run like a champ ever since. Since I was careful not to let software update do over my printer drivers, I also managed to keep some Epson legacy drivers that made the printer that worked on the 1,1 still usable. And that method also retained most of my software registrations so I didn't have to deal with the vendors.
However, if you want to keep Snow Leopard, I'd suggest after booting, immediately running the 10.6.8 combo updater, which might make the 1,1 System software more compatible with the 5,1 machine. That assumes that your new Mac is old enough to have been delivered with Snow Leopard on it, since there's some question if the Mac Pro's with Lion have been "fixed" to not accept a Snow Leopard install.

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