WINXP boot failure

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Stacey M

Hi folks,
I am experiencing the blue screen of death (STOP c000021 unknown hard error) when booting XP in the Parallels vm.

Is there some means by which I can expand the hdd image and repair it, or recover data files? Can this be done on another system ?

 

"Let me introduce the assembled multitudes to Huge's Three Rules of Backups;

1. Make backups.
2. Make backups.
3. Make backups.

I've had three disk failures in the last 3 months and not lost a byte of data.
Why? Because I follow my own rules... "

from
news:comp.unix.solaris, comp.sys.sun.admin

<< too bad
when cloning is so easy

Hugh W

 

Multiple hdd drives ?

Thanks Huge,
appears that we may have read the same book.
Being a DOS nut, I have written a BAT file that accumulates my files from OSX, WINXP, and shared partitions, and writes them to a USB key. However, as my backup runs but once a week, there are picture and data files that I would still like to recover from my corrupted winxp.hdd.

Is it possible to connect a *.hdd image file to an XP VM as an additional (non-boot) drive?

Regards,

Steveo

 

Yes, it is possible.

 

Thanks Eru,
I have spent a few hours reading the docs and experimenting. I have repaired my image and now have it operating as before.

Thanks

 

Beautiful.
If you know enough to make heads or tails of the Parallels documentation, TFM is often a good tool to start with.