Can't Boot into Boot Camp from Parallels 3036

[rchaput]

I am unable to boot into my Boot Camp partition from Parallels. After authenicating with my password, I get a drop down dialog box with the message "Unable to open disk image Boot Camp!"

I have gone back and deleted the Windows Parallels Tools (after first deleting the Parallels Tools from withing the guest OS (WinXPro) and re-installing. I have run several new setups using the Boot Camp disk selection. Nothing I do seems to help.

If you have had a similiar situation and were able to resolve it, please let me know.

 

[scottj123]

Do you have a FAT32 Boot Camp partition? It seems only NTFS works so far.

Scott Johnston

 

[TheBear]

Does your bootcamp partition disappear after you get that message?

I had a similar occurance:
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=31540#post31540

All I have to do though is reboot MacOSX and it's back to normal. I'm not sure what's the cause and any further insights would help!

 

[rchaput]

I do have a FAT32 partition. I'll convert it to NTFS and see what happens. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[rchaput]

I converted my FAT32 Boot Camp partition to NTFS using the Windows console command 'convert' (convert c: /fs:ntfs.) This solved my problem and I can now boot into Boot Camp through Parallels.