Not Able to use Bootcamp

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AMCMO

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We have a system with two SATA hard drives, one an XP NTFS BootCampthat worked under V3, and the Mac drive.

I tried to convert the V3 to V4 and it at the end of the conversion came up with "unable to write to drive1" . Though backup was selected and it went away for some time, there is no back up PVS I can find on any drive for the V3, so can't go back. I do have an old V3 bootcamp on another drive I could install, but after this issue don't wish to risk that if possible.

It did leave a V4 BootCamp PVM on the machine. I have opened the V4 Bootcamp and if I attempt to start it it comes up with unable to connect to drive 1, then CDROM1, 2 then attempts to boot from the network etc. By stopping it and editing config it shows that it is attempting to have the Boot Camp on an external USB drive that has no OS on it. The Only drive types available are IDE, even with Advanced Setting selected and it only shows the external USB drives, no SCSI. I need SCSI as the hard drives drives are SATA. The issue seems to be that it does not wish to acknowledge SATA drives unless setting up a new VM on the MAC drive.

If I try making a new VM the Boot Camp option is greyed out.

If I do an info in OSX on the Boot camp Drive it says I only have read access.

Getting desperate here as the essential info is on the BootCamp.

I've sucessfully made a new VM with Win7 on the MAC drive, but really need to get the XP BootCamp working.
 
Not Able To Us Bootcamp

I have the Mac off line this weekend, however on Wednesday I clicked the update link and it reported we had the current version
 
Last login: Sat Feb 7 22:36:02 on console
mac001d7d04da76:~ robertr$ diskutil list
2009-02-07 13:03:39.937 diskutil[819:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
2009-02-07 13:03:39.995 DiskManagementTool[820:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *931.5 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Mac1 931.2 Gi disk0s2
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk1
1: Windows_NTFS 298.1 Gi disk1s1
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk2
1: Apple_HFS Maca 298.1 Gi disk2s1
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *232.9 Gi disk3
1: Windows_NTFS Data 232.9 Gi disk3s1
/dev/disk4
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *7.5 Gi disk4
1: Windows_FAT_32 7.5 Gi disk4s1
/dev/disk5
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *37.3 Gi disk5
1: Windows_FAT_32 SEAGATE 37.3 Gi disk5s1
/dev/disk6
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *279.5 Gi disk6
1: Windows_NTFS Maxtor Back 279.5 Gi disk6s1
mac001d7d04da76:~ robertr$
 
OK, I've put a new drive in the system, so I have my Mac drive (sata), and a drive with Win 7 RC also Sata.

When trying to do any sort of setup, parallels does not see the sata drive with Win 7 on it.

I do not want to have win on the Mac drive.

At present I have a useless copy of Parallels that achieves nothing for me.

My previous request received no suggestions, so unless there is a way to work around this, how do I return my licecne for a refund?
 
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