I had a similar fiasco when trying to upgrade a boot camp partition to 3170. Since then I have subsequently repaired the boot camp XP, but Parallels is no longer installed - except that Paralllels Tools is still there, as well as the shared folder. Of course, I cannot do a manual removal of either, booted up into XP with boot camp... So, I am quite reasonably gunshy about how to proceed with installing 3186.
Strange too, since I had initially installed and then upgraded many times with various beta builds with no problem... Until the last one tried to update Parallels Tools, and since that I want to avoid any more of that pain of recovery.
Any words of wisdom?
Thanks.
Last edited: Feb 27, 2007