Disk Read Error (again)

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by gorshar, Sep 30, 2011.

  1. gorshar

    gorshar Bit poster

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    Add me to the long list of folks with this problem:

    SCSI controller is not installed
    Network bootrom is installed.
    Trying to boot from primary master IDE drive...
    a disk read error occurred
    press ctrl+alt+del to restart

    I've read many threads and see that nobody seems to have come up with a workable solution.

    So here's where I am now:

    Like others the problem occurred after my MacBook locked up and had to be forcefully shut down.

    So - I first upgraded Parallels 6 to Parallels 7. Still the same problem. Tried booting XP off the disk but the same errors continued.

    So I reinstalled Windows to a new virtual machine XP 1.

    And XP 1 works fine.

    Problem is, everything I need is in XP and I can't access it.

    Any ideas how I can get programs and data out of XP and into XP 1?
     
  2. btr572000

    btr572000 Bit poster

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    Me too

    After 2 years of struggling unsuccessfully with Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro, I finally got rid of the partition and installed Parallels. Have spent the day installing Windows 7 Ultimate then about a dozen Windows apps and all was going fantastically well ... until I had to do a hard reboot ... then the dreaded Disk Read Error appeared! Aargh.

    I found these threads here but after hours of trying things, no luck. I run Lion 10.7.4 and a Solid State Drive and do not know what Location to use for the SSD Hardware Configuration. It is showing 4 IDE options, 6 SATA options and 15 SCSI options.

    I can't see any helpful SSD info in the About This Mac area. Have tried just about all of the options without success.

    Can anyone help?

    Many thanks,
    Brian from Brisbane
     

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