New MBP, BC, Parallels

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schmo

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I got a new MBP today, and installed XP on Boot Camp 1.3. It is installed with the NTFS filesystem.

When I try to load this up from the OS X side of things, I get an error: Unable to open disk image Boot Camp.

My Parallels is updated to the latest available version.

Anybody have any ideas of what I should be doing here?
 
I have exactly the same problem with the same conditions. (new Santa Rosa MacBook Pro 17"; 4GB of RAM; 250GB drive; Boot Camp 1.3; 12GB NTFS partition install; Parallels 3.0 build 4128) Error: "Unable to open disk image Boot Camp."
 
I solved the problem by updating to 4128, and then (god this is obscure) copying c:\windows\driver cache\i386\drivers.cab to sp2.cab, in the same directory. (My source filename might be a tad off there, but there was only one .cab file for me.)
 
schmo said:
I solved the problem by updating to 4128, and then (god this is obscure) copying c:\windows\driver cache\i386\drivers.cab to sp2.cab, in the same directory. (My source filename might be a tad off there, but there was only one .cab file for me.)
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Wow, copying and renaming that file archive fixed my boot camp boot issues too! That really is an obscure and annoying issue, though, as it seems to indicate Parallels needs a file not present for all copies of XP.
 
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