Time Machine Error & XP validation

I have two questions that maybe someone can help me with. The other day I used Time Machine to back up my entire drive, I was tinkering with some things and wanted to install a stand alone Bootcamp partition and didn't have the free space. Anyway, after I reformatted and installed OS-X again, I used Time Machine to restore my machine. But Parallels complained about a lost driver or something.

Long story short. I kept my original Parallels install, so I used that to re-install. BUT it can't access my previous HD Image because it was made with a newer version. I never downloaded the newer versions because I just used the auto-update feature. Now I'm stuck, I can't get into my HD image, and I can't upgrade to the latest version because my key expired. Not sure what to do.

Since I now have the application working, thus the drivers must have been restored, I'm going to try using time machine again to restore the application now. But I'm a little worried that the versions will cause a nightmare.


SECOND issue. If I use parallels to access my bootcamp partition directly, Windows XP wants to reactivate because of significant hardware changes. If I then go back and boot Bootcamp direclty, it does it again. Anyway around this?

Thanks,
Dave

 

Don't worry about the second issue (XP Activation), it seems that I have found the answer in the other forum.

 

I seem to have fixed the problem; I managed to reinstall using the latest version as a demo and then using Time Machine to restore my slightly older version (but newer then the full install that I have). Now I can load my image.