Disk Error

[chefpaul@firehouse29.org]

It used to work fine. Someone indiscrimately started pressing function and other buttons on my Mac Book (a child) and now this is what I get when I try to go into Windows XP Home.

Boot from hard drive... failed
Boot from CD/DVD-ROM... failed
Boot from floppy drive...
Non-System disk or disk error
Replace and press any key when ready

Regular MAC programs still work fine. I have un-installed and re-installed parallels but the same problem re-occurs.

Is my only answer to wipe my complete MAC hard drive and start over???

Chef Paul: ???

 

[Hugh Watkins]

try the standard winXp repair procedures first
hold down F8 or Fn + F8 on boot up of the VM

I kept my data in the shared folders

so when I messed up a beta test (my own fault)
It was easiest to create a new VM

even though I am alone home I log on with a user name to both the Mac and Win XP
and have created a limited guest account on both

good house keeping is the same for any WinXP machine VM or hardware

good luck

Hugh W

 

[joem]

It sounds as if either your .pvs file is corrupted, or your .hdd file is missing or moved. Open the VM console, and have a look at where it says the .hdd file is, and make sure it's really there. Make sure it's connected to controller 0:0, and the boot sequence starts with hard disk.

If that doesn't work, restore a backup of your VM. If you don't have one, recreate the VM, and make regular backups so this won't happen again (or confiscate the child's fingers and return them when it's older <grin>).