Problem booting from BOOTCAMP WinXP in Beta 3 (3106)

[kermitpt]

I create the virtual machine through the wizard, to use bootcamp partition, as in the manual. Everything goes ok. But when I try to boot it, i get an error:

Parallels Desktop cannot find necessary drivers to configure your Boot Camp partition. Please refer to Help> Parallels Desktop Help> Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation for troubleshooting.

I can't seem to find anything in the help...

 

[czeluff]

change

change driver.cab to sp2.cab. simply a renaming issue.

i got past that point, but then i dont get any further.

 

[kermitpt]

What driver.cab? Where is it? I already have the Windows XP installed on the Bootcamp partition... is that a problem?

 

[lbnyc]

I used TinyXP to slim down my Boot Camp partition and chose to delete the cab file driver archives. Which ones specifically do I need in place for successful use of Boot Camp as a VM? I don't think I have room on the partition to copy them all back to the hard-drive and Parallels doesn't seem to be smart enough to prompt for the install CD.

 

[Franky]

What driver.cab? Where is it? I already have the Windows XP installed on the Bootcamp partition... is that a problem?

You can try to copy driver.cab, sp1.cab and sp2.cab (if any) from Windows installation CD drive:/i386/ on your Boot Camp partition in "C:\Windows\Driver Cache\i386" directory. That should work.
If you have Windows with SP2, it is enough to copy sp2.cab (~19MB) only.

 

[andy_vdg]

Wow... that fixed it for me... thanks a lot.