HELP! Error with Parallels 4 - Can not read disk

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by Eduardo Baer, Aug 21, 2009.

  1. Eduardo Baer

    Eduardo Baer Bit poster

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    Hi!

    I have been using Paralells for running WinXP on my MacBook Pro for the last couple of months.
    Today my VM crashed and after rebooting i get the following error while trying to boot:

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    Parallels(R) VGA-Compatible BIOS Version 3.0.2111.89721

    4.0.3522.205912 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:44:50
    Copyright 2008 Parallels, Inc. All Rights reserved.

    512 MB physical memory installer

    SCSI controller is not installed.
    Network bootrom is installed.
    Trying to boot from Primary Master IDE drive ...

    A disk read error ocurred
    Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
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    No matter what i do, it always comes to this error and does not manage to load Windows.

    I've been trying to fix this for the last 5 hours with no success.
    Can you guys help me!?

    Regards,
    Eduardo
     
  2. fbx

    fbx Hunter

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    I have this exact situation and there is no remedy I can find save erasing all and starting again. If I do that I am going to Fusion, which seems to have far fewer problems.

    I am a Parallels owner/user since BEFORE the first release. I love the program, but there are just too many breakdowns now.
     

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