1st off im sorry if this post is in the wrong location, but i find this forum quite confusing and dont know where i should post. Here is my problem, i recently got my new 17" macbook pro after my vista laptop died. Im really happy with my conversion to OS X its great. I have Bootcamp running with XP pro and parallels also working on the bootcamp partition. the thing is i read that its possible to get parallels to work off an external disk, but can i get parallels to work on my old Vista disk? (i already have it in a caddie and read files off it) So break down i want to be able to set up parallels to read the vista external drive and run vista as a virtual machine? is this possible? and if possible without having to reformat the disk and install windows vista again as i only have a product recovery disk. thxs
Dan Abell, This is not possible, only Boot Camp partitions or virtual disks are supported. But you may want to run Vista from that hard drive on a physical computer and migrate it via Parallels Transporter to a virtual machine: - Software link: http://download.parallels.com/deskt...lsTransporter-parallels-en_US-3810.237520.exe - Manual: http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v4/docs/en/Parallels_Transporter_Users_Guide.pdf
