Hello. I have a Macbook with 2GB of RAM that I run Parallels on. Recently, I fired up Parallels and it said that it couldn't find my image. It was time to rebuild the image anyway, I had too much junk in it so I just deleted the image. All of my data was on the server or the Macbook, so no worries there.
I have an image of an XP CD that I use to build it, and it has worked fine in the past. I copied it over to my Macbook, told Parallels to use it instead of an actual CD-ROM and away I went at the installation.
The first part of the install went fine. The system rebooted and went through the prettier-looking installation process. It asked for my name, product key and information about the network (IP address, if I wanted to join to a domain, etc.). I entered all of this, and it seemed to move right along.
The problem is, after I did all of this, it gets hung. The little boxes on the bottom right are still moving to show that it's doing something, the mouse still responds, but the time remaining never changes and the "current task" also never changes. The CPU usage on the Mac is near 0% and nothing ever happens. I even left overnight to awake to the same screen as when I went to sleep.
I did a hard reset and it came right back to the beginning of the setup where it asks for my name, product key, etc. I entered all of this and it went fine until a certain point where it gets hung. I tried this several times and it keeps getting hung at different places.
I also tried starting over again and doing a non-automated install. I did it all by hand, and it continues to do the same thing -- it just stops installing at a random point near the end.
I have updated Parallels to the latest version to make sure it wasn't a bug.
What is going on? If I can't get Windows installed then I might as well uninstall Parallels and try to get my money back.
-Chris
I have an image of an XP CD that I use to build it, and it has worked fine in the past. I copied it over to my Macbook, told Parallels to use it instead of an actual CD-ROM and away I went at the installation.
The first part of the install went fine. The system rebooted and went through the prettier-looking installation process. It asked for my name, product key and information about the network (IP address, if I wanted to join to a domain, etc.). I entered all of this, and it seemed to move right along.
The problem is, after I did all of this, it gets hung. The little boxes on the bottom right are still moving to show that it's doing something, the mouse still responds, but the time remaining never changes and the "current task" also never changes. The CPU usage on the Mac is near 0% and nothing ever happens. I even left overnight to awake to the same screen as when I went to sleep.
I did a hard reset and it came right back to the beginning of the setup where it asks for my name, product key, etc. I entered all of this and it went fine until a certain point where it gets hung. I tried this several times and it keeps getting hung at different places.
I also tried starting over again and doing a non-automated install. I did it all by hand, and it continues to do the same thing -- it just stops installing at a random point near the end.
I have updated Parallels to the latest version to make sure it wasn't a bug.
What is going on? If I can't get Windows installed then I might as well uninstall Parallels and try to get my money back.
-Chris