Best way to setup data drive on mac

Have an IMac running ML, 256GB SSD boot drive, and a 2TB HD as well. Want to get all my PC crap moved over to the Mac, be able to share files etc. and run windows apps in the familiar windows environment for those particular apps.
Bought Parallels 8 to setup windows on the mac. I seem to have transferred my Win 7 professional "C" drive over with applications working etc.. using the migrate wizard. It got put on the 2TB drive. However did not choose to bring 'data' in the wizard as "most" of my data in on my D drive.
I'm trying to now bring my "D:" drive (a separate hard drive on my windows PC) over and am having trouble. I thought I'd keep in on a separate partition on my 2TB Mac drive but I don't know. I want it to be easy to get to my hierarchy structure easily (the D hierarchy). I tried bringing over the data (about 750GB) using the parallels wizard via USB and it 'said' it completed sucessfully, but I don't see the data anywhere.
BTW, bought and used C2G male USB to male USB cables (#39987) to do this (not knowing about parallels having their own cables and version of parallels for doing this), so I'm not completely sure if that would cause any issues.
Anyone have thoughts? thanks
John

Look at Mac Backup - Mac Backup Software, Hardware, and Guides for Your Mac
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/tp/backuphub.htm
Mac OS X data backup FAQ http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
You can use CarbonCopy Cloner @ http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html , or SuperDuper @ http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html , or IBackup @ http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/index.html , or Silverkeeper @ http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/ or the Restore function of Disk Utility included in OS X.
 Cheers, Tom

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