having trouble with Parallels

when i try and boot XP with Parallels i get an error message that says it was un able to boot does anyone have and ideas as to why this might be happening?

campayne said:

when i try and boot XP with Parallels i get an error message that says it was un able to boot does anyone have and ideas as to why this might be happening?

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Take us through your install step by step. Are you saying that XP successfully installed (it reboots at least once during install) and that you were able to successfully install and boot into XP at first, then it won't boot into XP on subsequent attempts? What is the exact error message?

yes XP is instaled fine, its when i try to run it through paralells

Do you mean you have installed Windows thru Parallels, or that you installed it thru Bootcamp/partitioning and are trying to run it in Parallels?

its instaled with book camp and i am trying to run it in parallels

campayne said:

its instaled with book camp and i am trying to run it in parallels

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Night and day, my friend. Those are completely seperate things. You have to install Windows in Parallels just like you have to install Windows in Boot Camp. Think of them as seperate hard drives - currently, your Parallels hard drive is empty. You can't transfer the Boot Camp hard drive to the Parallels hard drive.

sounds like you should have read the documentation that went along with it.

oh gocha, well is there a way i can emulate xp

campayne said:

oh gocha, well is there a way i can emulate xp

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you have to install xp again wherever parallels tells you to put it.