Windows has stopped as it trys to boot

for the first 3 months I had Parallels I had no problems starting up the Windows Vista using Parallels for Mac 3.0 on my OSX 10.5.5. machine.

Now when I start up Parallels desktop the windows Vista stops and the "boot from the hard drive has failed"message comes up. I can't go any further and haven't been able to use it for several monhts now.

Please help

 

Vista will not boot for me as well

The same thing just happened to me today. Everything was working fine yesterday. I am running Vista Home Premium. I am able to use it in Boot camp natively, but it will not load at all in Parallels. I did have to re authorize it when I was running it natively but this did not make it start working in Parallels. Why I had to re authorize, I have no idea since I did not make any hardware changes I know about.

Should I try to start over with parallels and reinstall the virtual machine?

 

start Parallels Desktop holding Command key - in COnfiguration Editor - Hard Disk 1- Advanced -click Clear
Note, you need to activate Windows again

 

I did as you suggested and it still will not boot. Everytime I try to load it, I get the screen that says Windows failed to boot and it suggests I try to repair it by inserting the windows disk. Lower down on the screen, it asks me to try and start it in safe mode or normally, etc. When I do that it crashes and closes.

Then, everytime I restart it in boot camp, it does start up but it says that a change was made and I need to reauthorize. When I do that, it works well. If I re boot in boot camp, it works fine and there are no problems. As soon as I go back to Mac Os X and try to use parallels again, the exact same cycle starts up again. Clearing in the configurator as you suggested makes no difference.

Would it be a good idea for me to completely remove parallels and reinstall it a fresh?

 

paste here output from command bellow started in Terminal
for n in `diskutil list |grep -v /| grep disk | awk '{ print $5 }'`; do diskutil info $n; done; diskutil list

 

This is what I get when I pasted that line in Terminal

Device Identifier: disk0
Device Node: /dev/disk0
Part Of Whole: disk0
Device / Media Name: Hitachi HDP725032GLA380 Media

Volume Name:
Mount Point:

Partition Type: GUID_partition_scheme
Bootable: Not bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: SATA
SMART Status: Verified

Total Size: 298.1 Gi (320072933376 B) (625142448 512-byte blocks)
Free Space: 0.0 B (0 B) (0 512-byte blocks)

Read Only: No
Ejectable: No
Whole: Yes
Internal: Yes
OS 9 Drivers: No
Low Level Format: Not Supported

Device Identifier: disk0s1
Device Node: /dev/disk0s1
Part Of Whole: disk0
Device / Media Name: EFI system partition

Volume Name:
Mount Point:

Partition Type: EFI
Bootable: Not bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: SATA
SMART Status: Verified

Total Size: 200.0 Mi (209715200 B) (409600 512-byte blocks)
Free Space: 0.0 B (0 B) (0 512-byte blocks)

Read Only: No
Ejectable: No
Whole: No
Internal: Yes

Disk Utility Tool
Usage: diskutil information [-plist] MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode|UUID
diskutil info [-plist] MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode|UUID
Display detailed information about a disk or partition.
Root access is not required.
Disk Utility Tool
Usage: diskutil information [-plist] MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode|UUID
diskutil info [-plist] MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode|UUID
Display detailed information about a disk or partition.
Root access is not required.
Device Identifier: disk2
Device Node: /dev/disk2
Part Of Whole: disk2
Device / Media Name: Maxtor OneTouch III Media

Volume Name:
Mount Point:

Partition Type: GUID_partition_scheme
Bootable: Not bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: USB
SMART Status: Not Supported

Total Size: 298.1 Gi (320072933376 B) (625142448 512-byte blocks)
Free Space: 0.0 B (0 B) (0 512-byte blocks)

Read Only: No
Ejectable: Yes
Whole: Yes
Internal: No
OS 9 Drivers: No
Low Level Format: Not Supported

Device Identifier: disk2s1
Device Node: /dev/disk2s1
Part Of Whole: disk2
Device / Media Name: EFI System Partition

Volume Name:
Mount Point:

Partition Type: EFI
Bootable: Not bootable
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: USB
SMART Status: Not Supported

Total Size: 200.0 Mi (209715200 B) (409600 512-byte blocks)
Free Space: 0.0 B (0 B) (0 512-byte blocks)

Read Only: No
Ejectable: Yes
Whole: No
Internal: No

Disk Utility Tool
Usage: diskutil information [-plist] MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode|UUID
diskutil info [-plist] MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode|UUID
Display detailed information about a disk or partition.
Root access is not required.
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk0
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 265.9 Gi disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data 31.9 Gi disk0s3
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *298.1 Gi disk2
1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Time Machine Backups 297.8 Gi disk2s2

 

What is error , when you try to load Vista?

 

As soon as I push the play symbol to load windows, the window turns over to show the black screen of it trying to boot. About 3 seconds later it states that windows could not load. It asks me to insert the windows disc and then try to repair windows. Just below this is says that if this is the first time I have seen this message, I can try to start in various modes from safe mode down to normal. Any mode I try to start fails in under 2 seconds. Inserting the disc and going through system repair makes it so that I can load it in boot camp and repair it to run natively, but nothing changes this series of events from occuring when I try to open windows from parallels.

 

Try this kb http://kb.parallels.com/en/5063