Hard restart causing problems

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brianthomas15

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Hi everyone,

Last week I had to hard restart my computer while parallels was running Windows XP. When I tried to reopen it I got the standard "Windows was not properly shut down screen" and it starts the countdown until it restarts normally. The problem is it hits 0 and doesn't start XP again and when I move the arrow to "start windows normally" it doesn't work. I can highlight both safemode and last mode used but neither make windows restart. Can anyone help?
 
brianthomas15 said:
Hi everyone,

Last week I had to hard restart my computer while parallels was running Windows XP. When I tried to reopen it I got the standard "Windows was not properly shut down screen" and it starts the countdown until it restarts normally. The problem is it hits 0 and doesn't start XP again and when I move the arrow to "start windows normally" it doesn't work. I can highlight both safemode and last mode used but neither make windows restart. Can anyone help?
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do you have a clone of your VM?

if a VM gets broken it is sometimes easier just to delete and go to the next clone


Hugh W
 
boot in safe mode and then restart windows this will flush your VM and should solve your problem, no need to delete.
 
abanks said:
boot in safe mode and then restart windows this will flush your VM and should solve your problem, no need to delete.
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It won't even boot in safe mode. I can select it and it lists a bunch of scripts but does nothing after.
 
Boot the VM from the Windows disk and choose repair windows this will replace any corrupted files.
 
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Dear Brian

good morning to you.
abanks is correct, but be warned... this will reset your registery in your winVM and will need to reinstall all applications...

Good luck..

JL
 
I tried all of those

easiest to use a clone
or make a new VM

been there got the T-shirt

my own VM is on (my) version 7.2 since June 2006


Hugh W
 
Hugh Watkins said:
I tried all of those

easiest to use a clone
or make a new VM

been there got the T-shirt

my own VM is on (my) version 7.2 since June 2006


Hugh W
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Are there directions on how to do this anywhere? Also, thanks for all of your responses.
 
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