Converting Boot Camp (via FireWire) into virtual disk

hi

i've got (or better i have gotten) a macbook pro, which i've used as bootcamp system for long time. i recently purchased a parallels license and used that bootcamp partition with parallels. i cant use bootcamp anymore (hal.dll error), but that is not a concern, since parallels is much better.

anyhow, this weekend my mac crashed and the mac partition is corrupt (disk utility says "cant order key"), however the bootcamp partition still is able to mount.


so, i've installed parallels on a second MBP mountet the bootcamp partition via firewire target mode.
now i want to convert/migrate/create a virtual harddrive for parallels containing the data from that particular bootcamp partition.


i've found out, it could be done with parallels transporter, but since i cant start the windows part eighter, i cant install the transporter client.

is there any way i could make that bootcamp partition into a parallels virtual harddrive?

 

Use winclone from http://twocanoes.com/winclone/

 

Thank you John

after making a diskimage with WinClone, can i use that image to create a virtual disk? or will parallels still threat that "mountet diskimage" as bootcamp partition? (i'm asking because of snapshots and "pause" the virtual machine to avoid always booting up etc)

 

No, you can restore it from firewire disk to your Mac OS disk
Also if you can eject disk from old Mac and use it as USB you will be able to boot from it, and even set as Boot Camp

 

okey thank you John.

I'll probably will make a fresh windows install, and just reinstall the app's i need and import the data from the old disk.
i think this will be the cleanest method, since i'm not planing on using Bootcamp anymore.


you guys are awsome