I installed the trial version of Parallels many months back. But at the time did not think I"d get much use out of it. Last night I decided to purchase it and install. Perhaps this is where I went wrong, as I was informed I already had it installed (trial version). I decided to push ahead with the install anyhow as I figured why not go ahead with what I knew had to be a full version. After entering my reg key, etc, it looks like it tried to load Windows in a window, but everything went horribly slow. Then it gave some kind of errors and mentioned to contact the admin. After no luck there, I decided to just re-boot into Windows Boot-Camp since that was working fine up to before the install, but seems I run into the same problem there. Windows goes into a recovery mode and then the disk scan says it can not repair the problem. Looks like I may have bricked the system for good somehow, after not even getting an hour of use out of this purchase. I'm curious if this looks salvagable? It was windows 7 running I believe. My memory bank looks like: 2 GB 2 GB Free Free So, perhaps a total of only 4 gigs was really asking for too much here as well. Maybe I will purchase a 4 GB stick to get 8 total. But even still, not sure if I can salvage the bootcamp now. I do have everything on Time Machine backup, but IIRC these backups do not include bootcamp partitions. Thanks in advance for any guidance here.
Well, after some more research I assume what caused my bootcamp to blow up was when I was forced to force-quit parallels as things had come down to a grinding halt practically for me. Oh well, lesson learned there. Decided to do a migration from my previous windows machine and at least start from there. Though after waiting 9 hours, at the end of completion I ended up with: Unable to register the migrated virtual machine. And the other error I got was: The configuration file you specified is invalid. I guess I'll have to try another 9 hour migration over again tonight....