windows 7 capture with mount points

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Hello,
I currently dual boot a mac OS X Lion and Windows 7 pro machine. Both OS's reside on their own SSD. I am currently using mount points on Windows 7 (NTFS file system) to redirect my 'Users' and 'Program Data' folders to a traditional hard drive.

Is it possible to capture/create this image via the transfer agent? (obviously not through usb cable or over network).
I am concerned if I mount my two windows drives - one with the OS and the other with data - that the transfer agent may not be able to follow the mount points to the other drive.

Thanks in advance.
 
Sorry but i am not pretty sure what you would like to active. Do you want to transfer Windows into the virtual machine? Mount drives to Mac Finder using Parallels ? Transfer data between OSes? sorry it is just not clear from your message.
 
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Hello and thank you for your response. I will attempt to clarify what I am trying to do and my setup.

I currently dual boot between my Mac OS and Windows 7. Each OS is on a separate SSD. My windows 7 OS resides on a 128GB SSD, but due to space considerations I have redirected my 'C:\Users' and 'C:\Program Data' folders to an additional traditional hard drive. Their actual locations are now 'D:\Users' and 'D:\Program Data'. To the windows 7 OS everything appears to still be on drive 'C', but by using junction points, which Unix has supported for a long time, I am able to redirect these to a different physical drive. In Windows Explorer, the file structure shows up as all being on drive 'C', but if you double click the 'C:\Users' folder you are redirected to drive 'D'. (These are not Windows shortcuts)

Technically my redirect of 'C:\Users' is a junction point and my redirect of 'C:\Program Data' is a symlink. I am trying to determine if the parallels tool can follow symlinks/junction points to help me migrate my current Windows 7 installation. Some back-up software can handle this in Windows, but most can't.

If I need to provide further information or explain something in more detail, please ask.
 
Got it. I'm afraid this scenario have 80% to fail to migrate. Parallels Can migrate multiple disks but when they are clearly stated as separate partitions. Symllinks my not work. You can try to do the however, be careful and make a backup. Otherwise i'm afraid you will have to move all the data manually to the primary drive (even though you will have verry little space left after all) and run the migration. You will be able to resize the hard drive after migration to giv3e Windows more space.
 
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