Unable to open image Boot Camp!

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by robothouse, Apr 19, 2007.

  1. robothouse

    robothouse Junior Member

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    Ola folks...

    I'm getting the "Unable to open image Boot Camp" error when trying to open my Boot Camp partition in Parallels. This happened after a month's worth of perfect use. The application kept on bugging me to update, but alas, I was already at build 3188. I "upgraded" anyways after getting annoyed by the message. This killed my ability to run my Boot Camp partition via Parallels. Works great in Boot Camp though. The BC partition disappears from the desktop when it starts to run, then reappears as the error message comes up.

    Specs: MBP 2.33 Core 2 Duo running 10.4.9
    Boot Camp has XP Pro SP2 installed w/ all updates
    BC partition is on same physical drive as OSX and is NTFS.
    Parallels is looking @ 0:0 for the partition.

    Anyone have a clue? Parallels tech seems to think that Boot Camp is NOT supported even though it's clearly listed as supported here:

    http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/ga/features/bootcamp/

    I'm confused and would like to use the product as advertised!

    Also, here is my .pvs file:
     
    Last edited: Apr 19, 2007
  2. fluffybunny

    fluffybunny Bit poster

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    im having this exact same error, exact same conditions, except I have never had it working, and I just upgraded to build 3188.
     
  3. mtlee

    mtlee Bit poster

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    Not sure this really helps you guys, but perhaps anybody at Parallels or some other tech wizard who looks at this problem - my system gives me the error described in the posts above on occasion, but if I wait a few seconds and press the 'play' button in the Parallels window, it finds the Boot Camp partition and boots right up.

    I'd say this happens about 60% of the time. I haven't been able to figure out what I do differently the times that it does not happen.

    Mike
     
  4. Eru Ithildur

    Eru Ithildur Forum Maven

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    That is how some of our computers behaved during the Beta builds... Anyone upgraded from a Beta?
     

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