[doclipper]

Thanks Dave, my bubble is burst. If I understand you correctly, Parallels (not VMWare in my case) looks to the Boot Camp partition on my source HD, as opposed to some cloned copy of the Boot Camp partition on the b/u drive? I take it that since the threads on this began in 2008, there has been no further development work for SD that would back up the boot camp partition. Thanks for all your help on this. I'm installing Acronis True Image 11 on my boot camp partition as we speak!