I'm running Win XP SP2 V/M under PD4 on my iMac OS X 5.8 (without Bootcamp). After upgrading to PD4, everything seemed fine ... for awhile. Since I'm not a heavy user, it had been some time since I had last opened PD4/Win VM.
Then one night I decided to open Windows to download updates. My V/M failed to open and gave me some obscure and ambiguous err msg. I was over tired and made some bonehead decisions. Instead of getting some help, I decided to try to do some things on my own... big mistake. I decided to revert to PD3. Got advice on how to do that and tried to follow instructions which included uninstalling PD4.
When all was said and done, I was unsuccessful in getting back to PD3, and am now suspicious that my winxp.hdd file is corrupted. I have PD4.0.3844 back on my desktop, but when I attempt to start my WinXP V/M, I get a screen that says "Please wait while the virtual machine is upgraded" and presents a progress bar that gets about one fifth of the way across the screen. At that point, the window momentarily goes to a black MS-DOS-like screen and then immediately goes to the Win XP startup screen. At this point everything hangs.
I do have a winxp.2.pvm file saved off in my Docs folder. I have no idea how reliable it is.
I could really use some hand holding and guidance on what to do next.
From what I'm reading in the forums, I'm beginning to think I should reinstall PD3 (unless there have been some substantial improvements in speed and reliability). Other than religiously installing updates to PD4, I have no idea why it suddenly went Tango Ultra.
Please advise.
Then one night I decided to open Windows to download updates. My V/M failed to open and gave me some obscure and ambiguous err msg. I was over tired and made some bonehead decisions. Instead of getting some help, I decided to try to do some things on my own... big mistake. I decided to revert to PD3. Got advice on how to do that and tried to follow instructions which included uninstalling PD4.
When all was said and done, I was unsuccessful in getting back to PD3, and am now suspicious that my winxp.hdd file is corrupted. I have PD4.0.3844 back on my desktop, but when I attempt to start my WinXP V/M, I get a screen that says "Please wait while the virtual machine is upgraded" and presents a progress bar that gets about one fifth of the way across the screen. At that point, the window momentarily goes to a black MS-DOS-like screen and then immediately goes to the Win XP startup screen. At this point everything hangs.
I do have a winxp.2.pvm file saved off in my Docs folder. I have no idea how reliable it is.
I could really use some hand holding and guidance on what to do next.
From what I'm reading in the forums, I'm beginning to think I should reinstall PD3 (unless there have been some substantial improvements in speed and reliability). Other than religiously installing updates to PD4, I have no idea why it suddenly went Tango Ultra.
Please advise.