Windows Image On Parallels Partition

I am migrating from my PC to my new macbook pro. I made an image of the windows hard drive on my PC and want to restore that image on the windows partition I have with Windows 7 now installed in Parallels (I had 7 on the previous computer). I went to window's backup and restore and tried to use the image, but it told me to use the installation cd on bootup. Doing so, the installation cd sees the image and tells me to do the same thing to use it...although this time I really did use the installation disk.
Does anyone know a way to do this?

I think the only way to do this is to use Parallels Transporter to make an image of the PC.

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