SOLVED - Boot Camp partition STOP 7B in Parallels (3214) VM
Hi All,
After Parallels failed to shut down my Boot Camp powered VM one time I was left unable to boot into XP natively due to a damaged HAL.DLL among other problems. As a way of fixing this without having to start from scratch, I did a repair install of XP which all went fine - I can now boot natively into my boot camp partition.
The problem is now with my Parallels VM using the Boot Camp partition. Every time it boots I get a STOP 7B error (inaccessible boot device, I think) blue screen and the VM reboots itself. Safe mode doesn't work either.
Now from what I can tell, basically the drivers for accessing the partition (as presented by Parallels to windows) have been removed. I imagine that the first time you run Parallels with a Boot Camp partition it installs all the things it needs within the partition before booting it up. Since I have already got the Parallels Tools installed in Windows, it seems that Parallels doesn't think it needs to do this step, which is where all the problems are coming from.
I can't even uninstall Parallels Tools from my windows installation because it says it can only be done from within a parallels VM. Frustrating much? You betcha.
Any ideas on how to get this thing back to normal would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to have to take off all the data, format the partition and start all over again with installing apps etc.
Milamber_Cubed
Last edited: Aug 21, 2007