BSOD during Parallels, Boot Camp is fine

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sousamagic

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Yesterday I received my copy of Anytime Upgrade I purchased from amazon in the mail, and through BootCamp upgraded from Vista Business to Vista Ultimate. The install proceeded with no errors, and upon the last reboot I had Ultimate and everything worked great. It then decided to download around 48 updates through Windows Updater, and restarted to finish installation of updates, all without error. As this was the first reboot since upgrade, I was shocked to see a black screen with several options: It listed Windows Vista, or Vista Business (recovered), with recovered in parenthesis. I chose Windows Vista and it booted into Ultimate just fine. For the upgrade I changed my Mac's startup disk to windows since I knew it restarted several times, so now I decided to change back to Mac through BootCamp control panel, when I tried I received an error message saying I didnt have permission to change even though Im the administrator and only user account. I restarted holding down option key to manually go into mac osx. When starting up parallels with the latest update, I got the same choice at boot, selected vista as I had in bootcamp, and then the screen flickers greeen like a half a second, the microsoft with loading bar comes up for a have second, then flips to BSOD for a half second and goes back to the choice menu to startup. I booted back into bootcamp to see if it had been damaged but it was still ok. Ive uninstalled parallels, reinstalled, created a new vm with the same bootcamp partition after the upgrade and still no dice. I know my hardware is ok because I have a windows experience rating of 5 under vista ultimate bootcamp with my mac. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Mac Book Pro
OSX 10.5.6
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
55GB HDD partition for Windows Vista Ultimate
 
When I select the business recovered option of the boot manager during bootcamp booting it boots directly into Ultimate as well. I was able to bypass that screen by right clicking on computer, properties, advance system settings, startup settings, and where it says default os leaving it as Windows Vista I unchecked the box saying display options for X amount of settings. I have attached a screenshot of the BSOD in parallels. I have tried running chkdsk in Bootcamp by setting it to run at startup but it did not run the next time I booted up in bootcamp, I have not tried it though since I changed the settings.
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I contacted Microsoft again, and they gave support on how to delete boot option which I followed, and everything works in boot camp like it did before with no option screen whatsoever. I then ran chkdsk /f and this time it actually ran. The computer restarted in boot camp and worked perfectly. I then deleted my old VM and created a new one since running chkdsk. I still get the same BSOD as above.
 
I get the BSOD as well

I have a virtual machine using Bootcamp partition. This is version 4 btw. Anyway I have taken and attached a screenshot of the bluescreen.

Also people are saying that Parallels ruins the bootcamp partition such that when you start a bootcamp partition normally from boot you get that hal.dll is missing or corrupt message. There are a few reasons why this message could be occurring but for me it was the entry Parallels puts in the boot.ini file. You can remove this entry or otherwise repair it here: How To Fix Boot.ini. If you change the partition number you can at least use bootcamp as you could before.

Anyway I still want to use Parallels with Bootcamp. Why doesn't it work...help anyone?
 

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No partition software, and BootCamp is not cloned, its my xp install upgrade to business, then anytime upgraded to ultimate after about 6 months of no problems with vista business.
 
I was finally able to solve my problem. First I rebooted into windows through parallels and realized parallels tools did not uninstall properly when I ran the uninstaller. I uninstalled tools, then rebooted into my mac and deleted my VM. I created a new VM with my BC partition and it went into configuration mode, I reinstalled parallels tools and it all works. Thanks to all the support team members that helped me out.
 
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