My old XP SP2 computer stopped working yesterday and, rather than get it repaired, I'm considering whether I could use Parallels to take over for it. The problem I'm having is that I'm not clear whether there's a migration method that handles this scenario. (I'd like to avoid installing from my SP1 distribution and going through a mess of updates and application installs.) The machine had two hard drives, essentially system and data, and these have no problem. I can put them into an external USB enclosure and they're visible and readable on my Mac. So, the question is, is there a way to make use of these drives in order to have a shortcut method of getting a configured Windows virtual machine?
