Create Bootcamp Drive from Parallels image

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Is it possible to do a "reverse transporter" somehow? I want to take my parallels image and put it onto a boot camp partition. I've discovered that my Sprint EX720 EVDO card won't do some of the updates to itself under parallels. So I figured if I can transfer everything to BootCamp, I should be able to get the best of both worlds.

I do not now have a Bootcamp partition. I figured I could make a partition and then expand the disk image onto that drive using disk utility, but then the drive would need to be FAT32 and not NTFS as OS X can't write to NTFS.

So I figured I'd ask here. I'd really rather not do a complete windows install just to be able to update my EVDO card...

Thanks,

Jon
 
You should be able to do so from within windows using Acronis TrueImage.
I use it on my PCs all the time. There is no reason this shouldn't work in parallels and/or bootcamp.
Single licence of that utility is around 50$.
What could happen to you after migration is a windows driver and activation hell - so be careful...
If you're not a too experienced windows tech guy you better have one at range.
 
Just dump your Parallels tools prior to the back-up and keep the install CD on hand for after a restore. You will have a BootCamp driver CD to keep the Hell a little cooler.
 
Thanks, Guys. I think I'll try this.

Do you have to have Bootcamp installed first (ie: Windows fully installed) or just the disk partitioned and formatted (I interrupted my Windows install on the Bootcamp partition)?

Thanks,

Jon
 
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