restore full app from time machine

just installed a brand new drive in my macbook, and installed the OS from discs. can i restore parallels from time machine rather than reinstall from disc and have to reinstall XP also?

 

You can't restore a Parallels Desktop installation from Time Machine if you aren't doing a full restore, Parallels installs files in various places with the added problem that these places might vary with OS X version. Best approach is to do a fresh install.

However, this is different for VMs, If your VM(s) are not Bootcamp based you can restore them from a Time Machine backup, if Parallels was configured to back them up. Each VM completely contained in a .pvm file (actually a folder/package), typically located in /Users/<username>/Documents/Parallels/.

 

restore from time machine....

thanks so much for your response. i am extremely comfortable in the windows world, but it's only been in the past 3 or 4 years that i have been forced into supporting a handful of macbooks in my organization.

that is essentially the path i chose to take. after a fresh install of leopard, and then the snow leopard update (plus a couple of gigs of downloaded updates for the OS and various apps), i created a temp user, and ran the migration assistant taking all the defaults. saved my pvm to a different folder, and reinstalled parallels. all seems to be well. currently running parallels updates.

hgt

 

Snow leopard update?? If you have the Snow Leopard disk you could have installed it from scratch, without Leopard being there.

 

I will recommend it to buy the Snow Leopard or else there are many sites in the internet where you can download it

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