Hi everybody, that's my first post here . So now to my questions: I installed my windows xp pro on my macbook and everything's working just fine. Now I'd like to make backups of my installation. In several posts I read, that I just have to copy the .hdd-file to transport a vm to another mac. Would this be the same for my backups (copy on an external harddrive)? I'm asking this because I have a secound partition on my macbook with 20 GB and I need more space for my mac os x installation . Is this partition used by paralles or from my previous bootcamp? (I formatted the complete harddisk so this is why I'm asking) Thanks for the answers. Cimme
I chose not to use Bootcamp because it was in unsupported beta AS my Macintosh HD filled up I added a couple la Cie Firewire 800HDs with a VM open but stopped from PD > Menu > file > clone to a new location or two- I do this weekly You may run the VM from the external disk too All my images are on external disks and flickr.com all my data files in shared folders NOT winXP documents The Mac OS is highly automated and cloning is better than copying in this case search the forums for hugh housekeeping for more detailed explanations http://forum.parallels.com/search.php?searchid=998549 Hugh W
Hi Hugh, thanks for your answer. So after cloning the .hdd-file to it's new location I'll be able to format my mac and use the unused 20 GB? Thanks Cimme
you sound like a DOS veteran I have never needed to format a Macintosh HD There are various partition mangement utilities you need to run the clone first clean it up with the standard windows utilities and clone the clone I cannot give an authoritative answer because I never used bootcamp ask again on usenet http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?&sel=33583633&expand=1 eg comp.sys.mac.hardware comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage etc I would gop to http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.system/topics news:comp.sys.mac.system is where I asked for help when returning to the Mac - best with an nntp news reader like SeaMonkey Hugh W
Hi, I deleted my unused partition and my Parallels-Windows is still running. Thanks for your help Greetz Cimme
