i got a new Mac with the M2 chip and installed Parallels, discovering in the process that I also needed to install Windows 11. I followed the prompts and did the installation, but apparently the non-ARM version installed and I had to jump through other hoops to get a running version and to see the files that were on my Windows 10 hard drive.
The ARM version is the only version that will install on a Mac with an M2 chipset. You definitely have the ARM version of Windows 11 because that is the only version that Parallels will install on a Mac with M@. Is your Windows 10 machine now deleted (or non-operational?) and not connected to the same network your new machine is on?.
You can transfer the license from the Windows 10 installation. The Win11 version that Parallels installs is an official Microsoft Windows 11 Pro. You will need to purchase a new license if you don't have your Windows 10 license. (You did have Windows 10 Pro, correct?) If the Win10 version you had was the Home version, you're going to need to purchase a new license for the Pro version. Someone posted a site where you can purchase a license in one of the forums but I don't remember which one it was.
Welll, I do that all the time but then I beta test for a rather large (~25,000 users) and for some strange reason they want their in-hose software to work on MS Windows. If you have back-ups of your files, some spare time, a valid Windows PRO license and nothing to do for about 30 minutes, you can blow it away, but it sounds like you may have solved about 90% of your newbie problems already. Welome to the fun.
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