trouble - Vista & Boot Camp

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mdelvecchio

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hello,

i am trying to help a friend get his Macbook + Parallels + Vista Boot Camp config working properly.

- he bought Parallels 3, and one of the Vista versions

- he thinks he would like Boot Camp (but since he doesn't do anything *too* special in windows, I think he may be fine w/ a normal VM instance)

...what is the optimal way/steps to install this setup? Neither of us have really done this before. Currently when i try to Import his Boot Camp partition, it gives an error message saying this BC partition is non-standard, and it stops us. im not sure how he had installed the BC.

if we can't figure out the BC thing, then i think i'll just create a new normal VM (from the Vista cd) and see if that meets his needs.


thanks for any help!
matt
 
I avoided Bootcamp becasue it was in unsupported BETA 2 years ago

so stick with a simple VM
which version of mac OS?

I use 10.4.11 with Parallels 5584
there may be a newer version to use with 10.5.*

The parallels team are pretty quick with bug fixes - some caused by Apple updates - so it really pays to us the latest version of Parallels Desktop

A VM is just another PC so you need to use all the standard ante virus / firewalls / Registery Cleaner/ defrag / good housekeeping with Windows

running Regiustry Cleaner as I write
and it has found 59 errors after one week's usage

regards

Hugh W
 
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