Help! Loaded Mountain Lion, cant find Parallels - does this mean total reinstall XP?

I was having problems with Mac mail and iCal, so paid the $20 for the upgrade to Mountain Lion.

Meanwhile, hadnt realised that Parallels 6 wasnt supported so end of upgrade was told parallels was not a valid app and was shelved.

So if I upgrade to the latest version of Parallels, will I have to then completely reinstall windows XP again and all the non-mac software (Autocad etc) I had running or is there some way of adding to the current Parallels to get it running as it was before?

Or best to restore/uninstall Mountain Lion and upgrade Parallels, then reinstall Mountain Lion?

 

You don't mention whether you are running the VM with a Boot Camp partition or a virtual hard drive.

But either way, no, you don't have to reinstall Windows. When you install PD7, just create a new VM pointing to the .pvm file or the Boot Camp partition.

Steve

 

Thanks Strells
Im not running the Mac BootCamp and I havent partitioned my drive - Im just treating it like a virtual windows environment (if that makes sense?)

I seemed to have sorted it out now - was initially some problem with it not being able to find the old version of P6, but it has now worked and everything is there (though have lost connection to printers in Parallels/Windows XP)

Kind of irritating that the uprgade cost for this was $50, yet the entire operating system to Mountain Lion was only $20.