Installing without disc

Hello everyone,

I purchased a copy of parallels desktop for mac a few years ago (possibly 2007) and never got around to using it until now. Upon inserting the disk into the drive, however, I realized that my macbook's cd drive doesn't work (I lug it around a lot and rarely use the disk drive, so it probably got busted up somehow without my noticing).

Because of this, I can't install parallels from my cd. I have a serial number though. I was wondering if there was any way to download parallels and activate it with my serial number.

Thanks

 

You could download the trial of Parallels 5, then just activate it fully with your real key. Not 100% sure if it is the full package with the trial version though.

https://nct.tryparallels.com/fulfill/0285.001

 

I was gonna do that, but there are two things holding me back:

1. I'm not sure if I own parallels 5. It only says parallels for mac on the box (does that mean it's parallels 4?)
2. As far as I can tell, those trial versions ask for an activation key, but what I have is a serial number (it's written on a sticker on the cd pouch). I downloaded a parallels 4 .dmg and when it asked for my activation key I wrote the SN and it said it wasn't a valid activation key. Is there any way to activate with a serial number?