Can't install Lion (Windows XP and Parallells 6 being used)

Hi,

This is my first post here, so please forgive me if I'm not too used to the forum habits. I've been checking the discussions before, but haven't been able to find anything that matched exactly my case...

Let me explain it to you, so that hopefully somebody knows the solution and can share it with me...

I had Mac OS X (10.6) installed in my MacBookPro.

I had also installed Windows XP with Bootcamp in a different partition.

I had also installed Paralllels Desktop 6.

Everything worked fine.

Yesterday I decided to upgrade to Lion, and bought it in the Apple Store.

Before going ahead with the process, and as indicated by Apple, I upgraded the current Mac OS to the latest version.

I tried to install it, and after rebooting, when it was about 30 minutes to finish the installation, I got amessage saying that "MAc OS X can't be installed in the Macintosh HD hard drive, because a recovery disk can not be created" (translated from the Spanish message)

Then, I though that maybe it was some issue with Parallels Desktop. I checked their Fourms, and indeed it seemed that it could be the reason. I upgraded to the last available version.

I tried again, and got the same message.

Then I thought that maybe I had to upgrade to the last version also with Parallels in the Windows machine. I did so, and I tried again... and again it didn't work.

I don't know what else I can do... besides deleting the Windows partition, installing Lion, and creating a new partition, in which I should install Windows 7 (as Windows XP, as it is explained, is not supported in a new partition)

I followed all the natural steps to create the partition for Windows, install Parallels, etc. I mean that I didn't do anything manually then...

The only "weird" thing that I had to do when installing Windows XP was this one:

The Windows XP that I had was Service Pack 1, and Service Pack 2 was included in another CD... Of course that's not a problem when installing Windows in a PC, but gave me a lot of troubles to install it in the Mac. I found this solution in a Forum in Internet, follow the steps, and it worked:

(http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/running-windows-anything-else-your-mac/38166-wi ndows-xp-service-pack-2-installation-problem.html)


1. Click Start - Run - Type regedit and press enter

2. Navigate to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Setup]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\Software
\Microsoft
\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Setup

3. In the right pane, Right-click and select New - String value

4. Name it as BootDir and set its value to C


Can this be the reason why I'm not able to install Lion now?

Anyway, and whether it is, any solution (simple, if possible, please! ;-> ) to install it?

(Buying Windows 7, deleting the partition, etc. seems very nightmarish to me)

Thanks a lot in advance!

submariner321

 

Hello submariner,

I think that your issue "MAc OS X can't be installed in the Macintosh HD hard drive, because a recovery disk can not be created" must be sent to Apple support.
Parallels could not affect this.
BTW did you install Boot Camp using Apple Boot Camp assistant?

 

I did send it to them also, but as I wasn't sure whose "fault" it was, I posted it here too... Fault between "", as probably it's nobody's fault, but something caused by all the issues together... And I posted it here also in case somebody here knew about it...
Yes, I did install it using the Apple Boot Camp Assistant...
Thanks, anyway... and in case anybody knows any possible solution, please let me know! ;->

 

I have exactly the same issue!! I'm never home in time to call apple support before they close.....

 

Lion is 64 bit "only" and will no more bless XP

i guess LION is 64 bit "only" so say hello to Win XP and be prepared to buy Win 7!
Recently in march i Upgraded my MacBookPro Santa Rosa to a brand new Thunderbolt.
The first issue i discovered was that it was impossible to run Win XP anymore!
arghh
I purchased Win 7 and discovered that it requires 2 license keys, should you want to have both a Bootcamp partition and a //desktop6 virtualization...
Despite the fact there is only a single hard ware, when you boot Win7 either from Bootcamp or from the virtual machine, Win7 doesn't anymore consider that it's still the same hardware and will immediately ask you a second license key.
What a mess being obliged to pay 2 license keys at Microsoft...

 

You don't require two keys. You need to reactivate because, yes, the hardware profiles are different, but it is only one install. I cannot physically use my Bootcamp and my VM at the same time, I have to choose to either boot into Bootcamp, or stay in MacWorld and use the VM.

 

2 keys needed by Win7

Yes i tried to share the same key but it didn't work since Windows 7 said that probably I had an unblessed supposed corrupted key!
I went out of that mess only while providing a secund key!
My VM doesn't use Bootcamp because it took about a month to successfully install Bootcamp on my new thunderbolt laptop!
;-(
OK i immediately removed the Superdrive and installed my SSD removed from the Santa Rosa...
It was impossible to install Bootcamp with this updated hardware but it was a snap to install a VM with the Win7 DVD in the external optical bay.
Congrats to the //desktop team!
Because I wanted to give a try with Bootcamp, I only could successfully install it after going back to the original hardware status, aka with an internal optical bay!
So Bootcamp was only cooked a month later than my VM with //desktop6 and then the nightmare was every day at each Boot, Win 7 complaining about a wrong corrupted key!
You cannot reactivate Win7 at every Boot, because it's really painstaking, and in my case, it was impossible to use a single key. It was only after getting a second key, i went out of that mess!
Holy sh... Microsoft!