Disk read start up Error ON XP

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by gino.litonjua, Sep 22, 2008.

  1. gino.litonjua

    gino.litonjua Bit poster

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    Guys i need some serious help here,

    i forgot to shut the system down overnight
    then just this moring when ii tried to boot xp up...

    error reads:

    BOOT FROM HARD DRIVE...
    A DISK READ ERROR HAS OCCURED
    PRESS CTRL ALT DEL TO RESTART

    i dont know if i should re-install the program
    but i don't want to loose all my info on my xp side
    i have no clue what to do and i use this to work and now
    i am very stuck and pretty much useless without my xp/mac

    thanks in advance guys..
     
  2. John@Parallels

    John@Parallels Forum Maven

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  3. gino.litonjua

    gino.litonjua Bit poster

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    i have gone as far as backing it up (cloned it) then copy paste it on my mac desktop (winxp.hdd) then i already followed the article u gave me then i already uninstalled parallels through terminal and reinstalled the newwest version. still no good. now what do i do next?
     
  4. gino.litonjua

    gino.litonjua Bit poster

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    also did kb 4680 still no good. i only need to retrieve my google chrome bookmarks, and wanted to get a fresh copy of xp...
     
  5. John@Parallels

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    Just one note about 4680 article, try this on all hds files not on the latest and biggest
     

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