My problem is identical to the first half of the initial problem. So I concur with:
Whenever I start Windows, a black screen comes up and I can't do anything other than shutting down my PC. I tried starting Safe Mode from the Boot option directly after the computer started but it looked really confusing and I didn't see anything with Safe Mode written on it. I selected the first one and the screen went black again.
To clarify, the recommendation for a black screen is to boot to Safe Mode, but I am running Windows 10 inside Parallels, and when I click on F8, I get to a boot loader that only says what device to boot from. There is no option to boot into Windows Safe Mode. I think this is like the hardware boot loader, not the Windows loader.
How do I get to Windows Safe Mode?
Thanks!