Please Help! (Microsoft 7 Professional)

Hello,

I bought Parallels when I purchased my Mac and used it with XP, it ran fine, no problems.
A few months ago, I realized that I know longer needed the XP stuff so I completely uninstalled Parallels.

Today, I got given a Microsoft Windows 7 Professional disk from my school, to take part in certain coursework over the year. I reinstalled Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac cleanly and updated it. I went through the process of adding a new Virtual Machine and installed Windows 7, it's installed fine but I'm having issues with hardware.

For one, the network adapter is not recognized.

I keep getting messages from Parallels telling me that 'the physical network card doesn't exist' or something. All my networks work fine natively on the Mac but for some reason nothing is happening with Parallels, I have reset everything to default, etc, but to no prevail.

I've also noticed that I cannot play sound, when I try to play sound in Media Player (on the Windows) I get an error message explaining that I have no sound hardware installed.

PLEASE HELP, I'm growing really frustrated and I'm supposed to have this all up and running for school tomorrow!

Thank you VERY much.

 

If you need Windows working tomorrow, my advice is to install Windows 7 in a Boot Camp partition first (and install the Vista Boot Camp drivers from your Leopard or Snow Leopard DVD. You can always migrate it to Parallels later or even run Parallels using your Boot Camp partition.

 

It looks like you haven't installed Parallels Tools into the virtual machine. Do it this way please:

1. Start your VM, wait till it's booted, log in.
2. Go to Virtual Machine menu, select the "Install Parallels Tools option"
3. Parallels Tools installer will launch. If it doesn't, go to Windows Start menu->Computer->CD drive and run Setup.exe
4. Let Parallels Tools install, reboot when prompted. All should work after that