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Michael Jardine - 23 May 2008 14:57 GMT

Hi. I'm using Outlook (and a few other Office2007 apps) in a Windows XP VM
on my Mac (runs beautifully, by the way). I need to back up all of the MS
apps so I can restore in case the VM fails, because I don't have the
original disks anymore. Is there a way to do this? Thanks!

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Roady [MVP] - 23 May 2008 15:31 GMT

No, you cannot extract the installation files from an installed OS and then
port it to another system. Why not backup the VM or request a new disk set?

If you are looking for a way to backup your Outlook data see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

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> Hi. I'm using Outlook (and a few other Office2007 apps) in a Windows XP VM
> on my Mac (runs beautifully, by the way). I need to back up all of the
> MS
> apps so I can restore in case the VM fails, because I don't have the
> original disks anymore. Is there a way to do this? Thanks!

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Michael Jardine - 23 May 2008 20:39 GMT

On 5/23/08 7:31 AM, in article
DEE030AF-3B35-44D9-8E61-BA33743FD064@microsoft.com, "Roady [MVP]"
<newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote:

> No, you cannot extract the installation files from an installed OS and then
> port it to another system. Why not backup the VM or request a new disk set?
>
> If you are looking for a way to backup your Outlook data see;
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

I'm using Parallels Desktop for Mac and there is an error with the Compress
Disk utility; meantine it has bloated out to 30gb but I have only about 2gb
in files on the VM. So I have no choice but to create another VM.

My copy of Office is with my son at college. I could wait another month,
but...

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