Bricked my system with install?

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by DoctorW, Mar 7, 2013.

  1. DoctorW

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    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.
     
  2. DoctorW

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    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....
     

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