Booting from External Hard Drive

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nasser_macie

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Folks, my apologies if this has already been posted. I have looked through these boards and haven't been able to find the answer. Here is what I am looking to do...

I have copied/cloned a windows xp hard drive to my external hard drive. I am trying to figure out a way to boot parallels using this back up. Is there such a way. This drive is huge and I don't want to put all my windows files (by have access to them) on my mac system.

Thanks in advance!
 
I'm assuming that you are referring to a Parallels drive image file. If so, just open the VM configuration, and change the hard drive location to point to the external drive.

If you copied a bootable image to an external drive (not a Parallels .HDD file), I'm not sure what you should do.
 
Reply to Geo

Geo,

I cloned the xp drive. It's not a .hdd file. It's just an exact copy of my windows computer. So, when I try to change the source, it doesn't give me an option to click on anything on the external drive. I just see files and folders. It's looking for an .hdd file. Do you know of any way to convert my copy to an .hdd file so it can boot? Thanks!
 
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