Computer locked up... now Parallels and Boot Camp won't work

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joelwnelson

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My MacBook completely froze (screen went black) while running Parallels, while booted up from the Boot Camp partition with XP SP2. Upon rebooting the computer, I found that the Windows partition will not boot (giving me a hal.dll error) and Parallels won't start up, saying that more than one Windows partition was found and it is not a standard configuration.

What can I do to fix this? I can't afford to remove the partition and reinstall everything... I would think there has to be a simpler solution. (Although... this is Windows XP we're talking about. :mad:)
 

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Load up Disk Utility and eject/unmount any bootcamp or windows partitions. Unplug all usb devices. Restart
the computer, load Disk Utility, Mount the Bootcamp partition, and try to load up parallels.
 
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How about deleting your old Parallels Bootcamp VM profile and creating a new one. Then try to load up the new one. Shut it down. And restart bootcamp natively?
 
joelwnelson said:
My MacBook completely froze (screen went black) while running Parallels, while booted up from the Boot Camp partition with XP SP2. Upon rebooting the computer, I found that the Windows partition will not boot (giving me a hal.dll error) and Parallels won't start up, saying that more than one Windows partition was found and it is not a standard configuration.

What can I do to fix this? I can't afford to remove the partition and reinstall everything... I would think there has to be a simpler solution. (Although... this is Windows XP we're talking about. :mad:)
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Curious if you recovered from this tragedy? This is what worries me most about having Parallels using teh Bootcamp partition. I have been running Bootcamp itself seamlessly for 9 months. Never even a hint of a problem.

I'm thinking about using Parallels Bootcamp and I think I should be afraid, very afraid.
 
You should be, we have had nothing but issues and the Parallels support team doesn't respond to tickets. I have one user who's network adapter won't work in parallels I haven't recieved anything back from that and its been over a month since the first ticket and over 2 weeks since I submitted the second ticket. I other users (multiple) who are no longer able to boot via bootcamp because they are recieve the same hal.dll error that is listed in this post. I have recieved no response to that and none of the resolutions listed in the forums that I have found so far have resovled the issue.
 
same for me...

hi there...

i´m testing 3188 (= my first version ever) since yesterday......

nothing but problems...

i have 2 x 250 GB disks (system, apps, data, swap-volume; 2nd is for mirroring backups) and 1 80 GB disk (32 GB partition with boot camp)on a mac pro 3 GHz...

yesterday, i had a lot of trouble, setting it up and getting into our windows network, finally it worked... then my mac crashed... 1 250 GB disk was completely wrecked... my mac wasnt bootable any more... hardware errors during boot.

when i tried to boot my bootcamp partition, i also got the HAL.DLL error...

today i tested my mac... i only was able to reformat the 250 GB disk via the win-xp installer on the install-cd... no other chances... after that, i was able to repair my bootcampo partition: boot from the win-xp installer and let the win installer repair your windows (do NOT try a new installation!!! REPAIR is the secret!!!) . after that, my xp was booting flawlessly...

next step: setting up my mac again from my (luckily) prepared backup (via carbon copy ccloner))

mac was booting, all right now... so i reinstalled parallesl again... nnow problems, all is working... except the fact, that xp wont detect my VMs network adapter... i can´t acces my network any mooore via parallels...

the network-driver (in device manager) cant be installed... neither the parallels driver, nor the e rrealtek driver... i also tried to download the win-driver setup from realtek... no chance... i wont get my network running...

yesterday it worked, today not...

i have no clue any more... any help is VERY welcome!
 
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