Clean Boot Camp Partition - Parallels 4

[montymintypie]

The title says it all. How do I do it? I'm trying to make MacDrive work. Any way to clean the Boot Camp partition in Parallels 4?

Will T

 

[John@Parallels]

Mac Drive is working from Boot Camp, without problem, as for Clean Boot Camp, I am not sure what do you mean
Please elaborate

 

[montymintypie]

In Parallels 3, there's an option to remove everything to do with Parallels from the Boot Camp partition (Edit > Virtual Machine > Hard Drive > Advanced > Clean). Is this possible with Parallels 4? I'm not using Parallels with Boot Camp anymore, I prefer the isolated VM.

 

[John@Parallels]

We do not install anything inside Boot Camp partition, thus no clean option,.
Just remove Boot Camp VM, if you do not want to use it

 

[montymintypie]

You really reply fast, thanks! Ok, that's good to know. Just something, after cleaning (and removing files/registry entries) a damaged Parallels 3 Boot Camp VM, MacDrive still doesn't work. On the MacDrive site they say the only way is to re-install Windows. Please tell me there's an easier way! What exactly would Parallels do to stop MacDrive? Some messing around with the MBR? Or worse?

Thanks in advance,
Will

 

[ethannz]

Hi I have the exact same problem. I am trying to use Macdrive and they have advised me to Clean Up my Boot Camp partition.

This is the link: http://assist.mediafour.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=124

How can we clean up our partition in Parralels 4 without reformating windows?

 

[John@Parallels]

Article describe situation with Parallels Desktop version 3,
And I am not sure what problem you met?
is it autochk, if yes, link in you referred article provides solution