.HDD clone to an internal drive ?

I am running a Mac Pro, latest 10.4.10


I have 2 OS X internal drives. When I installed my new, main drive,
I tried to "link" to the original drive to run Parallels.... no dice.


So I just went ahead and copied the whole thing to my new drive.


Now that I have cleaned up, read: formatted, my older drive, I want
to put Parallels (Windows XP Pro) back on it.


It is working fine and I do not want to have to re-install XP and go through that
mess, so what do I need to do ?


I basically just want to carbon copy the .HDD (VM) to my newly formatted drive and
run it from my "main" OS X drive.


How can I do this ?


TIA !

 

just use the clone facility in Parallels and save in the new position

I do it weekly as a back up too

now onto an 800 Firewire drive from La Cie which seems to help the MAc OS run faster too

Hugh W

 

BTW alawys clone before an upgrade

I have a 2.5 hdd as a fall back from when I installed PD 3.0
and another before I took the latest beta

Just in case

Hugh W

 

Maybe I am being daft here but why 'clone'??????

The VM file is exactly that 'a file' it can be copied like any other file through the Finder.

It also makes backups REALLY easy.

Just close down Windows (while in Parallels).

Then copy your whole VM folder (I keep mine in Documents/Parallels for simplicity).

Then if anything goes wrong you have a perfectly working set-up to fall back on, something I have needed on a couple of occasions.

I also do this before any upgrades to Parallels.

Robin

 

Hello,

1. Please make a backup copy of the virtual machine folder (.HDD, .PVS and other files - see the posts above);
2. Reinstall Parallels;
3. Start the virtual machine using the .PVS file (double-click on the .PVS icon),

Best regards,
John

 

the advantage of the Mac OS is automation
cloning takes less time / mouse clicks

A power user on the Mac knows all that but would rather get on with something creative than mess with cogs and gears, bells and whistles

and the resulting clone will run as is in Parallels the next time you open PD for Mac

Hugh W

 

Is this step strictly necessary?

David