re-install P10 after a HDD replacement

I'm going to swap out the HDD in my macbook for an SSD. I am planning on doing a clean install rather than a clone so I can reconfigure the partitions and clean up the windows installation. I'd like to know how to treat the P10 install in terms of reinstalling and re-activating. Ultimately the old HDD will be reformatted and wiped and used as an external storage device. The computer is a mid 2010 macbook pro 15 with 8gb memory and a 300 gb hdd. I'll be installing a 500 GB SSD. The current drive has a hard bootcamp partition, When i installed P10 I had it installed in the bootcamp partition. This time around I plan on loading Parallels before I load all the Windows stuff and clean up the install.

 

Hi John,

Please uninstall Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac completely as suggested at http://kb.parallels.com/122653 before installing in your new HDD.
That should help you in re-activating in new HDD.

 

Thank you!

 

If I understand the article correctly I am removing the desktop, but not the virtual machine - is this correct?

 

Hi John1234,
Yes, you are correct. Uninstalling Parallels Desktop will not affect your Virtual Machine.
You can locate the Virtual Machine at Documents -> Parallels Folder or Users -> Shared -> Parallels Folder.
The name of the file would be Windows. PVM. Please check the knowledge-base article : http://kb.parallels.com/117333 for more info.