Clone Windows installation into parallels?

[sms]

Hi Guys,

Is it possible to clone my existing windows installation on my laptop to my parallels virtual machine? That would save me hours of installing and tweaking my windows installation...

Thanks

[hwitten]

I did it with Ghost 10 after much fussing due to the limited diskspace on a Mini. Eventually I got it using an external USB etc. (for the ghost image). However, I ended up throwing it away. XP sees all the hardware changes and only gives you 3 days to re-activate. I didn't want to do that and I didn't want to blame parallels in case some problems arose. I went back to bootcamp for now and will try paralles from scratch as I get more time.

[petero1k]

You said you used Ghost 10. Did you boot Ghost from parallels or Boot Camp? How did you do this?

I want to suck an entire 60gig NTFS partition from my external drive into a Parallel's image file. Im not sure what format Parallels can use for the image file. I have a 120gb internal drive that I can use, so i have the room.

Peter