Help with Parallels/Windows Xp

[Daniel Fusco]

Hey Everyone-

I've was converted to Mac about 6 months ago. I installed parallels with windows xp and it's always worked great.

All of a sudden yesterday, the blue screen of death popped up on the virtual server and when I go to reboot I see the windows xp logo at startup but it doesn't go any farther. It just stays at the black screen inbetween the logo and the eventual xp desktop.

I'm wondering if a) I can fix it and how or b) how I should go about uninstalling and reinstalling.

If anyone has any ideas, I would love it.

Thanks a ton
Daniel

 

[Fleetwood Mac]

I'm not sure what's happening. There's probably a way to figure it out and repair it, but I don't like diagnosing Windows. I just reinstall. The great thing about virtual machines is that you can reinstall whenever you like and its not a big deal.

You can open your XP VM's hard disk image with Parallels Explorer and recover any files you want to transfer to your new install first. Then its a matter of clicking File > New and making a new VM in Parallels just like you did before.

Please post any questions if you have them.

 

[OrangeCuse44]

perhaps it would be better suited posting this question in the Windows on a Mac forum located further down below. More people with knowledge of parallels could help you.