Parallels will not shutdown Vista properly...HELP!!!

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jhiginbotham

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I've had this problem ever since I've upgraded to build 5600 and did this because I couldn't use the build previously because Vista was winning about activation so I was stuck using vista in bootcamp. I saw that this issue was addressed but now I can't use bootcamp since parallels will not shut down Vista properly. I've searched this forum and googled the problem and have not found an answer to it. Here is the scenerio, I have a mac bookpro and use parallels for visual studio development. When I'm at work I boot straight into bootcamp so that I have maximum memmory and cpu power. When I'm at home I boot into parallels just to do minor VS things. At work I need the full machine and now I'm stuck in using Vista in parallels until this issue gets resolved. Prior to Vista going to SP1 status everything worked great as long as Parallels shutdown properly. Then SP1 came out and all sorts of problems with Parallels started, mainly activation problems, and yes I did the update in BC. I just waited for the update to parallels to fix this issue. It came out and now I'm stuck using parallels until it can be resolved. Here is what happens, I start my parallels through a bootcamp partition (Vista Ultimate) and do what I need. Go to Start -> Shutdown, like all good boys and girls should do and it does the shutdown process and when it ends, followed by an error message that states:


Boot Camp Windows XP was shut down abnormally while it was used via Parallels Desktop. Please boot into Boot Camp via Parallels Desktop once again and shut down Windows XP normally.

So I was confused that it was stating XP when in fact I'm using Vista. Either way I stated parallels again and when through the process of shuting down and got the error again. Well obviously if I start my BC partition it will not load, and so I tried and I'm right. If I go through safemode It hangs on the crcdisk.sys which I've searched here and googled and have not found any definative clear answers to this. So bottom line, I need a real answer to what is going on. This is really cutting into my productivity at work....Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
 
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If you read early on in this thread I turned on Detect Hal in msconfig in the advance settings of the boot menu. This allowed me to boot into Bootcamp and Parallels, the only drawback is you will still receive the "you did not shutdown windows xp correctly", which it is correct since I shut down vista, lol...So just ignore the message when it pops up until the devs can iron it out. Also I still have the problem in 5608 John, unless it rolled over from the previous version, fyi this issue didn't pop up until three version ago, not sure if you knew that and it worked fine until that like some umpteen million versions before that, it wasn't until you added the stuff for activation after sp1 that it started doing this, which honestly I think that has something to do with it, but I don't have the source how would I know.
 
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Nope no solution yet

I get fed up and decided to reformat and try again...still had a problem and time was money at this point and I was running behind on work messing with a problem that I shouldn't have had to trouble shoot myself, so I went to vmware fusion and bought that. I've been using that since and it is sweet. Faster and has the dual monitor support I needed (no taskbar running down the middle of my screen). So I'm not saying that you should run out and purchase this but it sure did the trick for me and seems to be a much superior product. When the whole world of virtual machine on Mac started Parallels was the product, but I'm not so sure that is the case now, looks like there is a new (old) kid on the block. I've used vmware on other OS's but never OS X. Works amazingly well, so something you might want to look into. Just my two cents.
 
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Seems to be a dead issue

I suspect this is a dead issue for them, against this release anyways. No one seems to be listening to this thread anymore. And about 2 weeks ago, I got a newsletter pre-announcing v. 4.0 of Parallels Desktop for Mac. So maybe the problem gets fixed in that version.

Be nice if they offered us some break on upgrading since we've sat through this bug for so long.

Anyone from Parallels still lurking on this thread? What do you think about giving us a break on the next upgrade?

Spencer
 
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Sigh.... I see that the recent build (5626) still does not address this problem. Just installed it, launched Parallels, shutdown and Voila! there was the "could not properly shutdown" message again.
 
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