I've been trying to get a copy of W2K installed but it's not working. I have: non-bootable educational (MSDN) W2K CD with four floppy disks to boot/run setup MacBook 1.83 Combo/1GB RAM Purchased retail copy of Parallels w/updates fully-updated 10.4.7 Steps to reproduce: Installed Parallels Created floppy images with my beige G3 under OS 9, renamed to xxx.fdd Created new VM for default W2K settings Booted the VM from those images using the disconnect/reconnect trick, it works all the way through floppy 4 and to reading the CD before dying with the following error: "STOP: c0000221 Unknown Hard Error \SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll" whereupon the VM immediately exits. Troubleshooting: Updated parallels Tried using the real W2K CD and a .iso image Tweaked VM settings Created several new clean VMs Searched this forum for similar posts Sent an unanswered message to support last week Other notes: The W2K install works fine on an old Compaq PII, the only hardware PC I own I don't have another version/copy of Windows Mandrake 10.1 installs and runs perfectly under Parallels Anyone know a workaround/fix for this installation bug? I have seen posts which discuss the floppy/CD install routine, but those posts all assume it should just work. My semi-educated WAG is that the NT kernel is dying when the CD is accessed. Thanks for reading and I hope someone has ideas.
I did exactly what you did, except I copied the floppy images from the CD using the Mac, so I was sure I had the correct version of the floppies. The Win2k pro and server disks are different, IIRC. Win2k Pro is working just fine for me. I'd suggest you install while running the Parallels release version and not the current latest which is beta.
no floppy images on CD The CD I have doesn't have a directory with floppy images, I copied them from physical floppy disks. You can actually install either W2K Pro or Server with this kit. I tried this install with three different builds of Parallels unsuccessfully Thanks for replying, any other ideas? DMC
May be Compaq modified Windows 2000 for their hardware ? And when Windows trying to initialize Compaq specific hardware it falls into bluescreen. You can try to get another CD of Windows 2000.
Generic W2K This is a generic W2K install, not OEM. It is from my CIS program, they have an MSDN subscription so we get free installs of numerous MS products. It should work on any PC. DMC
