Boot Camp won't run after parallels...

[trevstrotz1]

o crap, I think I am screwed, I installed Parallels 3.0 Beta, on the same partition as bootcamp, on my mac, so i can run my windows that is on bootcamp on parallels. Now when I restart my computer while holding down the option key, windows boots up, but the login screen looks bigger, and the trackpad and keyboard does not work. I also see this message a little while after Parallels starts:



Any Ideas....??

Thanks!

[trevstrotz1]

any ideas?? Please help on this one...

[DeltaMac]

You've likely replaced the Boot Camp windows drivers.
Boot to your Windows partition (through the Option-boot screen)
Assuming Windows starts up OK - insert your Leopard install DVD, and let the Windows driver installer automatically run. That will fix up your Boot Camp windows installation.
I'm not sure what you mean by installing Parallels on the same partition as Boot Camp... When you install Parallels, then run it the first time - you choose the Boot Camp installation as your guest OS. That's one of the advanced options that you can choose during the Parallels setup. After getting the Windows running through Parallels, be sure to install the Parallels Tools. This should install automatically when you first start the Windows OS in Parallels, or you can run it manually from the Parallels menus. There's more information in your Parallels Desktop User Guide in the Using Boot Camp Windows Partition chapter - should be Chapter 14 in your guide -

[Las_Vegas]

DeltaMac is absolutely correct. Once Apple's drivers have been reinstalled, Parallels should create a second profile to allow using the partition between Parallels and Native (Boot Camp) booting. Perhaps it's a bug in the beta version that overwrote the Apple drivers.

[trevstrotz1]

O.K., so now I was having way to many problems with windows, so I removed the windows partition, but I want to reinstall it, so what steps should I go through?? Making the bootcamp partition then running the windows install through bootcamp? Then opening parallels on the mac side and using the bootcamp partition and install the parallels drivers.....


Could you please include all of the steps, I am really stuck...

thanks.

[DeltaMac]

Quote: Originally Posted by trevstrotz1 O.K., so now I was having way to many problems with windows, so I removed the windows partition, but I want to reinstall it, so what steps should I go through?? Making the bootcamp partition then running the windows install through bootcamp? Then opening parallels on the mac side and using the bootcamp partition and install the parallels drivers..... Could you please include all of the steps, I am really stuck... thanks.

You have the steps needed. Boot Camp first, then install Windows on that boot camp partition. Update with the Windows drivers from the Leopard DVD. Then setup Paralells. Parallels should take care of its own drivers for Windows, through Parallels tools.

[trevstrotz1]

o.k., I will try it again, but I hope it does not do what it did last time...

[trevstrotz1]

O.K., it worked! BUT-that message still shows up that i posted, is there any way to make it go away? What does it mean?

[Las_Vegas]

I suspect that dialog is a bug in your beta version of Parallels. Previous versions simply unmounted the Boot Camp partition and left it unmounted as long as Parallels was using it. The new version is attempting to remount it through some trickery so that OS X has access to the drive while Parallels is using it. Apparently, in your case, it's not working right.

[trevstrotz1]

is there any way to fix it?

[trevstrotz1]

u guys are not going to believe this, I clicked on the help menu in parallels, then>Check for updates, there was an update, I updated, all problems solved, no more message.

Thanks for helping though!