I recently installed Parallels, and tried to use it with my Boot Camp partition. It froze at the activation sequence, and I eventually gave up trying. I have since used a separate, dedicated virtual HDD to run another copy of Windows, with no problems whatsoever. However, when booting into my Boot Camp drive, I have problems. Firstly, I had a missing HAL.DLL file error. I fixed it via a convoluted method, and found it was the unfinished Parallels install trying to boot. I modified BOOT.INI to make it normal again. I then deleted the Parallels folder and registry entries. HOWEVER, some applications no longer run. The Apple keyboard manager didn't work (Send error report etc) and I had to downgrade to an older, worse version that worked. MacDrive no longer worked (even after a full reinstall of MacDrive, the process is starting, but the drives aren't connected). Does anyone have a fix for this? It's annoying not having access to my files, and I'd like a keyboard manager that isn't crap. Anyone know how to fix it???????? P.S. I deleted the Parallels folder and registry entries in a vain attempt to fix the broken application. It didn't work.
Sorry about this long delayed reply. Reinstalling Boot Camp drivers fixed half the problem. MacDrive is still broken. Any ideas?
All of the MacDrive processes work, such as install, configure, settings etc, but the drive itself doesn't mount. You've been very helpful so far, I hope you can fix it!
Ops, if it is not working from Boot Camp, i am not sure we can help, we do not know MacDrive internals, maybe it is better to ask on MacDrive support or forum, and give here some replies from there
HAL.DLL Windows file I have had the identical problem recently. Essentially, when Windows XP is starting up, a message appears on a DOS screen almost immediately that the file HAL.DLL (the file is a system file in the Windows root directory) is missing or corrupt (it's definitely not missing, I checked). I tried replacing it with a copy of the same file from another Windows XP installation, didn't work. All I could do to fix it was begin all over by reformatting the Windows drive and reinstalling everything from scratch. Unfortunately, this has now occurred three consecutive times. The second and third installations each worked for a short time and then the problem occurs again, but not every time. It doesn't seem to be a problem with Parallels, since it occurs whether I run Windows from Parallels or directly from Boot Camp. Something is wrong somewhere - I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.
i've got the same problem. after a paralles desktop 3.0 for mac crash yesterday, i had problems to start xp via bootcamp. the boot.ini always wanted to start from parallels config. and missed hal.dll the clear disc1 trick helped to restart. but ... bootcamp didn't work any more and mac drive can't see any more the mac drive ... i reinstalled bootcamp drivers - so bootcamp is running now, but macdrive still can't see my mac drive. (even after reinstall) before this parallels crash everthing worked fine ... please help me! cheers sabine
hi, john, thanx for your reply. yes, bootcamp was running after reinstallation and i reinstalled my macdrive 7.2.0 - but the solution was last night to update to macdrive 7.2.2 ;-) now everythings working again, but i'm afraid of using parallels again . . . after the use of parallels the boot .ini is each time overwritten with two entries. do i always have to do the advanced hard disk 1 clear after each session? greetings from munich sabine
No it shouldn't , try to clear it once again, and when in Parallels Desktop, try to shutdown Windows using Start- Shutdown
