Eleven steps. That's what it takes to convert a Boot Camp install to Parallels. Eleven may come off as a small number, but the courageous colddiver, who made the successful transition, said the whole process was a "painful" one. Trading off the Boot Camp's partition for the virtualization offered by Parallels offers two major challenges: first, backing-up the Boot Camp partition and converting it into VM .hdd file; next, repairing your Windows install so that it can work under the significant hardware change.

If you feel like you can brave through the eleven steps - after all, reviews say that Parallels is indeed better than Boot Camp - then check out the steps here. If you think the process is too much of a hassle, you can always start from scratch in Parallels.