Rebooting WinXP in Parallels results in an NTFS chkdsk

I actually have 2 issues:
1.
When I reboot my Parallels Win XP Pro image, randomly I end up with an NTFS Chkdsk screen. It doesn't tell me that my disk was shut down incorrectly, it just performs the chkdsk.

Any idea on why this keeps happening?

2. When booting Windows XP in my Parallels image, I get hung up when the image is booting at the Windows XP screen with the blue scrolling progress indicator. It will stop moving from left to right and hang for a good 3-4 minutes. During this time, there is no indication of activity in the bottom right status indicators in Parallels viewer. The Host hard disk however, is working feverishly.

The progress indicator will then continue, however it may stop again and pause.

Once I've booted into the image however, if I shut it down and relaunch it, it starts normally. This behavior will repeat itself when I reboot the host.

The machine is a Core Duo 2.16GHz with 2GB of ram running on WinXP pro.

 

Try disabling hardware each time until it loads up normal? Change your resolution? How does it work when you go into Safe Mode?

 

Hmm, I'll have to go back and try safe mode.

I woulnd't think that it's a hardware issue because it starts just fine on subsequent reboots. The resolution is set to 800x600.