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Hi to all
Let me first apologise if this has been asked before, or is posted in the wrong area, but I have a problem with Parallels/Boot Camp.
I have had Windows boot camp on my iMac now for nearly two years and it works fine when I boot into it. About six months ago (maybe longer) I downloaded the trial of Parallels 3.0 but did not bother to buy it after expiration as I did not use it as much as I thought I would. Now the situation has changed and I decided that I would buy a copy from amazon.
As the original download of Parallels was still on the iMac, I have just entered the new product key that came in the box into the existing programme. When I start Parallels now, I encounter the following problems.
The icon in the dock turns into an egg timer and Parallels starts. A black screen appears and the words "Parallels Configuration" is highlighted and then the windows XP loading page appears. I then get the two tone blue windows page with the words "autoch' and something about session manager initiation process terminated. After this, I cannot go any further. If I try to press the start key again, I get the message "unable to open the disk image Boot Camp".
I am sure that I have used up my last install of my Windows disk, so would prefer not to have to reinstall windows within Parallels...but after saying that, windows works fine in Boot Camp so I don't think this is the issue.
BTW, I downloaded the latest build and installed this.
Please could anyone help me resolve this problem. I have posted on Parallels site, but have had no answer.
Thanks
Philip
Let me first apologise if this has been asked before, or is posted in the wrong area, but I have a problem with Parallels/Boot Camp.
I have had Windows boot camp on my iMac now for nearly two years and it works fine when I boot into it. About six months ago (maybe longer) I downloaded the trial of Parallels 3.0 but did not bother to buy it after expiration as I did not use it as much as I thought I would. Now the situation has changed and I decided that I would buy a copy from amazon.
As the original download of Parallels was still on the iMac, I have just entered the new product key that came in the box into the existing programme. When I start Parallels now, I encounter the following problems.
The icon in the dock turns into an egg timer and Parallels starts. A black screen appears and the words "Parallels Configuration" is highlighted and then the windows XP loading page appears. I then get the two tone blue windows page with the words "autoch' and something about session manager initiation process terminated. After this, I cannot go any further. If I try to press the start key again, I get the message "unable to open the disk image Boot Camp".
I am sure that I have used up my last install of my Windows disk, so would prefer not to have to reinstall windows within Parallels...but after saying that, windows works fine in Boot Camp so I don't think this is the issue.
BTW, I downloaded the latest build and installed this.
Please could anyone help me resolve this problem. I have posted on Parallels site, but have had no answer.
Thanks
Philip