Hi,
Have recently bought a MacBook Pro and Parallels 3.0 and am now running Windows XP Pro in Parallels. Everything works fine. I am completely new to the Mac having used windows pcs for most of my life.
I understand that if I copy the Documents/Parallels folder with its contents to an external hard drive it will backup Windows and, I assume, all the windows programs. Am I correct in this?
If I am I assume if I need to restore this after, for example, a hard drive failure, I just have to copy this folder back and Windows XP and all the programs will be restored to the machine.
Also, I have so far resisted upgrading Parallels to version 4.0 because there seems to be so much uncertainty as to its reliability. If I do install 4.0 and I have problems, will restoring the above folder restore the system to its previous state with no problems?
Regards
Brian
Have recently bought a MacBook Pro and Parallels 3.0 and am now running Windows XP Pro in Parallels. Everything works fine. I am completely new to the Mac having used windows pcs for most of my life.
I understand that if I copy the Documents/Parallels folder with its contents to an external hard drive it will backup Windows and, I assume, all the windows programs. Am I correct in this?
If I am I assume if I need to restore this after, for example, a hard drive failure, I just have to copy this folder back and Windows XP and all the programs will be restored to the machine.
Also, I have so far resisted upgrading Parallels to version 4.0 because there seems to be so much uncertainty as to its reliability. If I do install 4.0 and I have problems, will restoring the above folder restore the system to its previous state with no problems?
Regards
Brian