Problem with parallels - Windows and Mac experts required...

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Hi all,

I have been running parallels on my Macbook pro for a while with no problems. Today as XP was booting I got this


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I have no idea what it means or what I can do about it, I can't find anything about it with google. I did back up my entire mac hard drive a few days ago but I don't know what files to restore to fix the problem. Any suggestions?
 
I would do the Mac basics before anything else. Just boot in OSX run 'repair permissions' and if you have got it Mac Janitor.
If after the repair the problem is still there it would sound to me like a windows thing - so out of my spectrum. Hope it helps.
 
a corrupt file, possibly a sign of a failing hard drive. It's not a Mac specific problem.
 
Thanks guys - I haver run permissions and verify disk and every thing appears to be OK with the hard drive. Any ideas what files to restore from my backup to restore win XP under parallels?
 
Restore the windows hard drive file. Its all contained in there.
 
I don't know if your system works the same way as bootcamp but if you can see the windows partition and navigate through it, then all you'll need is a good version of that .dll file.

I don't know if it's one that is specific to your system but if it's just a standard windows file for booting, move and re-name the current one and drop the good one in it's place.

If that's all that's wrong, it should be OK.
 
Thanks for the help guys. In the end I reinstalled windows under parallels and then mounted the old windows HD as a drive to retrieve files.

I was feeling quite smug as everything looked good but I then started to get some errors in XP telling me to run a chkdsk.

I ran a chkdsk and it froze at 18%. This would normally suggest I have a hard drive which is failing. However when I run disk utility on OS X from the installation disk, verify disk gives me no errors.

Is there any other tests I should do to check my HD from OS X?

I appreciate it's a very bizarre problem butr since there's a lot of clever bods here I thought I'd ask :)

I have asked on the parallels forum but haven't had an answer yet...
 
since there's a lot of clever bods here
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Indeed and I'm going to leave any more advice for them to give, as I'm out of depth now. :lol:

Hope you get it sorted.
 
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