New User, Trying to Upgrade

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mlanham

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I just bought Parallels from the Apple store, installed it and an old copy of XP Pro. I just spent a lot of time doing the updates all the way to SP2.

While waiting for the updates, I started poking around the online documentation and realized that the CD in the box contained an older version. After the XP updates, I tried to update Parallels itself from the Help menu. It downloaded the new version and I ran the install/upgrade. Now Parallels opens up and immediately goes to the setup assistant. When I click cancel Parallels shuts down. I moved the top window to see Now I cannot get my install of XP to run. I see the files under /documents/parallels/winxp

Please tell me I don't to go through the XP install all over again! :eek:
 
mlanham said:
I just bought Parallels from the Apple store, installed it and an old copy of XP Pro. I just spent a lot of time doing the updates all the way to SP2.

While waiting for the updates, I started poking around the online documentation and realized that the CD in the box contained an older version. After the XP updates, I tried to update Parallels itself from the Help menu. It downloaded the new version and I ran the install/upgrade. Now Parallels opens up and immediately goes to the setup assistant. When I click cancel Parallels shuts down. I moved the top window to see Now I cannot get my install of XP to run. I see the files under /documents/parallels/winxp

Please tell me I don't to go through the XP install all over again! :eek:
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Open an OS X Finder window and visit your Parallels folder. There should be a pvs file in there (winxp.pvs), and you should be able to double-click on it and have it load Windows. When Windows starts it will need to have the new Parallels Tools installed. But!

First make a backup of the winxp folder!
 
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