Boot Camp Upgrade

I have an IMAC running Parallels 6.0. My original set up was a single Vista load that was used both for boot camp and Parallels. This worked great with no problems.
I then created a Win 7 VM with Parallels that I have been using for about six months and this has worked fine also. So I have a Vista VM a Win 7 VM and a Vista Boot Camp.
My question, is there anything I can do to use the Win 7 as my boot camp machine? I would like it to be the same machine Win 7 machine under boot camp and Parallels.
Thanks for any help... Bill

Hi Bill,
yes, you can upgrade from Vista to Windows 7.
Have a look/read here on this http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7upgrade03.asp
To my knowledge and from what the Parallels guy posted in the other thread, they don't provide any kind of tools for going from VM to BootCamp.
For the other direction, from BootCamp to VM, they have their Transporter program.
Windows itself has its "Windows Easy Transfer" for backing up settings and data, though.
Regards
Stefan

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hunt2013 wrote:
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Many thanks. To the best of my memory, that is how I got where I am today. Initially I had one failed setup, then discovered compatibility mode and ran using it. The result was not an obvious failure, but something was not there because not only were some drivers missing (wi-fi, trackpad, ...) but (much to my disappointment) the 3.1 update would not run. It complained that 3.0 wasn't there. If I hardwired to my home network, the machine would do almost everything I wanted, but the graphics were slow and clumsy. That is when I hunted around for the NVidia driver and downloaded it from NVidia. And that is where I stand now.
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