Trying to boot from Secondary Master IDE

Wife was working in Parallels today and it froze. Can't get to many more details than that from her. Now it goes through the start-up process for Windows XP and it stops at "Trying to boot from Secondary Master IDE" I've attached a screen shot. Any advice? She sure needs it at work tomorrow. : (

Mac OS 10.6.8, MacBook 2.4 Core2Duo, Parallels Build 6.0.12106

Thanks in advance!

 

Check the hardware configuration of the VM. Shut the VM down and go to the Hardware tab of the VM configuration. Set the hard disk to SATA 0:1 and try booting again.

Steve

 

Reply 2

In trying to do switch to SATA 0:1 I got this response:

 

OK, then it should just be master IDE for XP. Not sure why yours is secondary master.

Steve

 

Try to create new Vm and attach the existing hard drive to it.
New Vm WITHOUT A DISK. Open Configure --> Hardware --> Hard Disk 1 and locate the virtual hard disk of you broken Vm. Try to start,

If it does not work, try to repair Windows following the KB http://kb.parallels.com/en/5138

 

chkdsk /r was the solution

Thank you for your reply YanaYana. The following is a log, if nothing else.

After creating a VM as instructed, I still got "Trying to boot from Secondary Master IDE"

Next step - repair Windows. Step 2 says the installation CD must match the service pack, so I waited to get a copy of SP3 instead of trying the slipstream stuff. Step 11 says "wait until the end and click R to repair the existing installation." No R or repair was available...no explanation on the site. On the other websites for advice... http://michaelstevenstech.com/repair_install_warning.htm

First run:
"Possible Fix by reconfiguring boot.ini using Recovery Console.
1.Boot with XP CD or 6 floppy boot disk set.
2. Press R to load the Recovery Console.
3. Type bootcfg.
4. This should fix any boot.ini errors causing setup not to see the XP OS
install.
5. Try the repair install."

Of course, bootcfg gives a number of options I know nothing of so I have to find another website's help. bootcfg /rebuild failed, so windows suggested chkdsk. CHKDSK found one or more errors on the volume. Another website tells me to use chkdsk /r. After hours passed, "found and fixed one or more errors on the volume." According to http://www.ehow.com/how_5135453_repair-windows-cd.html , it's time to reboot to see if Windows works.

Windows boot worked! Glad I didn't reinstall Windows and loose my files and I'm glad on the Mac I have limited OS issues (not none, just limited compared to Windows).
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Turns out applications where not running on this "fix" of Windows. Boot from CD...again at step 11 there is no R listed and just partitions listed and not Windows.

 

thanks a will review this KB

 

Fix

As it turned out, the complexity of going this route was just impossible. I would run into exceptions to the directions and have to chase that tangent which then created another tangent. After 12 hours of trying, I just switched to a backup of the VM that was a couple weeks old. Thanks again for all the help.