Kathleen R
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I hope someone can steer me in the right direction.
Running Win7 64 bit in bootcamp as VM in Parallels 5 on MacBookPro.
The mac was crashing a lot for still unknown reasons & after other things were tried that only temporarily helped an erase was in order. While I had backed up the Mac side in Time Machine right before, I had tried to back up bootcamp about a week or so before using the Win7 backup software. Got an error message something about missing library something. A microsoft person said it was looking for podcasts but said it should have been backed up anyway. Not sure about that. I went ahead & did a mirror back up.
So now I'm running late trying to get this year's taxes done but want to import from last year so I don't have to do all the data entry.
I don't totally understand how this all works or where I might find the tax return. I had originally started it on my Dell & then with it on extension moved it to this machine in Windows. I worked on it in Parallels.
Saw a review on Amazon where they said they didn't support virtual machines (so he had to re-enter all his data but they belatedly admitted they had a problem) so I don't expect help from them, but likely the usual runaround about not supporting dual boot/virtual machines or whatever.
Would Time Machine have backed up the VM if it was running at the time of the backup? I think some of the back ups it was running & others it wasn't. Of course it would have to be before the erase.
If anyone could tell me if it might have backed up in Time Machine & if so where to look to get the return back or alternatively how to find it in the windows back up, that would be appreciated. In addition I likely is still on my Dell in the early stages so some of the info would be there & that may be on my NTFS back up drive which has Dell back ups as well as the Windows backups.
I'm not real up on the whole back up process. Its one thing to back up--its another thing to know what to do with the backup if needed to restore from. I was able to locate my Parallels key from the instructions on where it is stored so followed that path on the TimeMachine backup & found it. But not real clear on just where program data is stored & how to retrieve it, either in Time Machine or in Windows.
Thanks for any help. Of course I'm running into the filing deadline as well. all the repeated crashes & repair attempts & then the erase which kind of suprised me so I hadn't just backed up windows or saved the tax file (I'll know better this year) has put me way behind. It has been going on now for almost 2 mo & looking at hardware replacement next, although it hasn't crashed the last few days so maybe it won't need that. I just got Parallels reinstalled yesterday & Windows & Outlook want to be activated but I'm afraid that will wipe out the bootcamp activation & that I'll just have to do it all over again after HD replacement.
Running Win7 64 bit in bootcamp as VM in Parallels 5 on MacBookPro.
The mac was crashing a lot for still unknown reasons & after other things were tried that only temporarily helped an erase was in order. While I had backed up the Mac side in Time Machine right before, I had tried to back up bootcamp about a week or so before using the Win7 backup software. Got an error message something about missing library something. A microsoft person said it was looking for podcasts but said it should have been backed up anyway. Not sure about that. I went ahead & did a mirror back up.
So now I'm running late trying to get this year's taxes done but want to import from last year so I don't have to do all the data entry.
I don't totally understand how this all works or where I might find the tax return. I had originally started it on my Dell & then with it on extension moved it to this machine in Windows. I worked on it in Parallels.
Saw a review on Amazon where they said they didn't support virtual machines (so he had to re-enter all his data but they belatedly admitted they had a problem) so I don't expect help from them, but likely the usual runaround about not supporting dual boot/virtual machines or whatever.
Would Time Machine have backed up the VM if it was running at the time of the backup? I think some of the back ups it was running & others it wasn't. Of course it would have to be before the erase.
If anyone could tell me if it might have backed up in Time Machine & if so where to look to get the return back or alternatively how to find it in the windows back up, that would be appreciated. In addition I likely is still on my Dell in the early stages so some of the info would be there & that may be on my NTFS back up drive which has Dell back ups as well as the Windows backups.
I'm not real up on the whole back up process. Its one thing to back up--its another thing to know what to do with the backup if needed to restore from. I was able to locate my Parallels key from the instructions on where it is stored so followed that path on the TimeMachine backup & found it. But not real clear on just where program data is stored & how to retrieve it, either in Time Machine or in Windows.
Thanks for any help. Of course I'm running into the filing deadline as well. all the repeated crashes & repair attempts & then the erase which kind of suprised me so I hadn't just backed up windows or saved the tax file (I'll know better this year) has put me way behind. It has been going on now for almost 2 mo & looking at hardware replacement next, although it hasn't crashed the last few days so maybe it won't need that. I just got Parallels reinstalled yesterday & Windows & Outlook want to be activated but I'm afraid that will wipe out the bootcamp activation & that I'll just have to do it all over again after HD replacement.