Please help: A disk error occurred

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Hello. Sorry if I posted in the wrong section, but here's my question.

I've been running Windows XP Professional using VMWare Fusion for my macbook with Leopard. I have just tried to start up virtual pc and as it boots up the terminal window, it stops with the message:

A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

Since I did not know how to press that in mac keyboard, i connected the external usb keyboard and tried, but the same message appears. So anyone know how to fix this problem? Please help. Thanks in advance.

Mike
 
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xaction said:
Hello. Sorry if I posted in the wrong section, but here's my question.

I've been running Windows XP Professional using VMWare Fusion for my macbook with Leopard. I have just tried to start up virtual pc and as it boots up the terminal window, it stops with the message:

A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

Since I did not know how to press that in mac keyboard, i connected the external usb keyboard and tried, but the same message appears. So anyone know how to fix this problem? Please help. Thanks in advance.

Mike
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Sounds like your virtual hard disk is corrupted. The easy thing to do would be to restore the hard disk file from backup (assuming you made one at some point).

Barring that, you could boot the virtual machine from the Windows XP CD, go into the Recovery Console and try running CHKDSK C: /R to run a repair on the virtual disk.

If that doesn't work and you have no backup, you'll need to recreate your virtual machine.
 

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