Ok guys, i'm hoping you can help shed some light on this issue i keep having.
I'm running the latest version of Parallels Desktop (3.0) with XP SP2. This is the 3rd time i've had windows report that all these .dll files are corrupt and tries to run CHKDSK to fix it, which only makes matters worse.
Here's what happens. At some random time opening quickbooks 2008, (initially began running 2005 so i updated) i will get a message saying "Bad image file" from quickbooks and i'm unable to open quickbooks. At that point, i'll restart and windows will come up with the CHKDISK utility. The first time this happened i let it do its thing and after that i couldn't even startup windows, it was F'ed beyond belief. So the past two times i've stopped windows from running chkdsk. This time, i didn't catch the CHKDSK in time and it ran for a bit and i restarted the virtual machine to make sure it didn't do screw up windows. Now i can't open quickbooks (still) and many other programs won't work and i get all these bubbles saying "___.dll missing or corrupt" and nothing seems to work.
I also can't copy my quicken data off the computer because it says its corrupt. I got quickbooks off but not sure how much of the data is lost.
My solution in the past was to reinstall XP, thinking the problem was solved, but now that this keeps happening i'm getting really fed up. I ONLY use xp and parallels for Quickbooks and Quicken as the mac versions are terrible. Is there something with Parallels corrupting my xp install? What the heck is going on? I'm afraid to run "repair install" as i'll probably lose what little of my data i have left.
Thoughts?
I'm running the latest version of Parallels Desktop (3.0) with XP SP2. This is the 3rd time i've had windows report that all these .dll files are corrupt and tries to run CHKDSK to fix it, which only makes matters worse.
Here's what happens. At some random time opening quickbooks 2008, (initially began running 2005 so i updated) i will get a message saying "Bad image file" from quickbooks and i'm unable to open quickbooks. At that point, i'll restart and windows will come up with the CHKDISK utility. The first time this happened i let it do its thing and after that i couldn't even startup windows, it was F'ed beyond belief. So the past two times i've stopped windows from running chkdsk. This time, i didn't catch the CHKDSK in time and it ran for a bit and i restarted the virtual machine to make sure it didn't do screw up windows. Now i can't open quickbooks (still) and many other programs won't work and i get all these bubbles saying "___.dll missing or corrupt" and nothing seems to work.
I also can't copy my quicken data off the computer because it says its corrupt. I got quickbooks off but not sure how much of the data is lost.
My solution in the past was to reinstall XP, thinking the problem was solved, but now that this keeps happening i'm getting really fed up. I ONLY use xp and parallels for Quickbooks and Quicken as the mac versions are terrible. Is there something with Parallels corrupting my xp install? What the heck is going on? I'm afraid to run "repair install" as i'll probably lose what little of my data i have left.
Thoughts?