Finally Got Version 4.0 working

I decided to try reinstalling 4.0 from scratch with a fresh windows xp sp3 since I now had to wait for sales (still haven't heard from them). FINALLY I have windows back! Thank goodness I had backed up my documents before upgrading. Now 4.0 works great. No complaints except smart select does not recognize .docx files as word documents. Well I can live with that. I must say, this has been a horrible experience. I totaled about 15 hrs of working on this not to mention lost productivity at work. 4.0 might be ready to run as a new install, but it was no where near ready to go from 3.0 to 4.0. I now own a brand new Apple time machine btw. I wish Parallels would do something nice for everyone who got screwed with this. It would be good PR.
RW

 

Hi,
We are sorry for inconvenience caused and your feedback is appreciated.
Please, tell me the ticket numbers if you still haven`t got a reply from us.

 

615237
Rw

 

Alright, I have replied you in the ticket. Pls, check your email.

 

I got it working too!

I decided to try version 4.0 today (again) and I noticed there was an update, so I updated. However this did no good, as I still had the same problem as before, which is the PC VM gets stuck in the boot process and then complains there is no boot volume.

This time I went to the menu and selected FILE > OPEN and manually navigated to where I knew my VM drive was (the file I found on my machine was called "Windblows XP.pvm"). Now the software acted differently, going through a process of updating the old VM to a newer version VM, and in a few minutes Windows was booting up fine.

Hope this helps someone.