Seeking Advice After Hard Drive Crash

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by Eric Staveley, Aug 19, 2010.

  1. Eric Staveley

    Eric Staveley Bit poster

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    Hi All,
    On my first gen MacBook, I just recently suffered a hard drive crash across my Snow Leopard partition and BootCamp/XP partition that a Parallels5 upgrade used. I have safely replaced the hard drive and Time Machine did it's job by putting back all of the files on the HFS side. Of course, I failed to use WinClone (or similar products) to image my NTFS side (my bad). I attempted to use WinClone to salvage what I could from the failed drive, but I got read errors during the IMAGING attempt.

    Parallels 5.0 is still on my Mac and, of course, but can't see BootCamp because it's not there right now...I now only have the 1 HFS partition for Snow Leopard on my new HD.

    I'm past the 30 day free support and was wondering if you all think think this is the best way to proceed:

    -Uninstall Parallels from the Mac
    -Enable BootCamp within Snow Leopard/Re-install XP
    -Reinstall Parallels 5.0 (I still have the dmg and code) to access the BootCamp partition (like I had b4)

    I'm just seeking the advice of others who may have been down this path before. Do I/should I unistall Parallels 5.0 from my Mac first before proceeding?

    Any advice will be greatly appreciated and thanks for the time!

    Regards,
    Eric S.
     

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