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pkirkman

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Feb 26, 2013
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So a few years ago I purcahsed Parallels 7, and happily used it on Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion etc. Before upgrading to Mavericks I purchased the upgrade to Parallels 9, upgraded successfully, and then upgraded to Mavericks.

Then two days after upgrading to Mavericks my hard-drive died, and Apple have since fitted a new one, with a clean install of Mavericks. I only ever backed up my documents, rather than using time machine, so I now don't have a copy of Parallels on my machine at all.

My question... Will I be able to install Parallels 7 onto Mavericks, and then immediately upgrade to 9 using my already purchased upgrade, or am I going to have to wipe the hard drive again myself, install Parallels 7, upgrade it to 9, and then upgrade to Mavericks? Or even worse, pay for a full copy of Parallels 9 and install that....

Any help much appreciated!
 

imacken

macrumors 65816
Feb 28, 2010
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My question... Will I be able to install Parallels 7 onto Mavericks, and then immediately upgrade to 9 using my already purchased upgrade, or am I going to have to wipe the hard drive again myself, install Parallels 7, upgrade it to 9, and then upgrade to Mavericks? Or even worse, pay for a full copy of Parallels 9 and install that....

Any help much appreciated!

You just need to install PD9, and when asked for the serial number, it will ask you again for a previous version one.
 

eecyclone

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Jul 10, 2013
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You should be able to download a PD9 trial from parallels website, then just use your PD9 activation code with that.
 

pkirkman

macrumors newbie
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Feb 26, 2013
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Perfect! Problem solved.

I ran the updater and it asked for my upgrade activation key, and then the original key for Parallels 7. Guess I should have just tried that in the first place!

Thanks both!!
 
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