Vista Disk Drive Installation Error

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bijou

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I am trying to install Windows Vista Home Premium upgrade over an existing Windows XP Professional installation. I prepared the disk for Vista install per instructions (Action menu) and started the Vista setup program. I get a dialog box that says.....

Windows cannot be installed to this disk, Windows needs the driver for device [Standard PC]. Click 'Load Drivers' and load the request device driver.

Well, I did that and no drivers can be found.

I'm running Build 5584 on Leopard.

Any ideas?
 
bijou said:
I am trying to install Windows Vista Home Premium upgrade over an existing Windows XP Professional installation. I prepared the disk for Vista install per instructions (Action menu) and started the Vista setup program. I get a dialog box that says.....

Windows cannot be installed to this disk, Windows needs the driver for device [Standard PC]. Click 'Load Drivers' and load the request device driver.

Well, I did that and no drivers can be found.

I'm running Build 5584 on Leopard.

Any ideas?
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I, too, have had this problem, running Build 5584 on OS X 10.4.11. Any luck in finding a solution? A couple of others here seem to have had the same trouble, but I can't locate any advice to them in the forums...

TH
 
Count me in as having this issue as well. I upgraded to Vista several months ago using OS X 10.4 Tiger and an older version of Parallels (don't remember which one) and had no issues, but now cannot seem to get it working.
 
bacarlson99 said:
Count me in as having this issue as well. I upgraded to Vista several months ago using OS X 10.4 Tiger and an older version of Parallels (don't remember which one) and had no issues, but now cannot seem to get it working.
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More of the same. Others have posted this complaint -- see <http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=19148>, for example, without a reply from tech support for several weeks now.

The basic problem of Parallels (as always): nothing really quite works as promised and if you don't know your way around the minute internals of Windows you are pretty much out of luck in the end. Time to think about the competition, I'm afraid. Very frustrating.

TH
 
I think I tracked down part of the issue- I was trying to upgrade from Windows XP Professional to Windows Vista Home Ultimate Edition. Apparently that is unsupported so it throws an error which causes Parallels to interpret that as an error. God forbid you pay Microsoft money for a product but don't read all the fine print on their 9 different versions of Windows Vista plus upgrade vs new versions.
 
bacarlson99 said:
I think I tracked down part of the issue- I was trying to upgrade from Windows XP Professional to Windows Vista Home Ultimate Edition. Apparently that is unsupported so it throws an error which causes Parallels to interpret that as an error. God forbid you pay Microsoft money for a product but don't read all the fine print on their 9 different versions of Windows Vista plus upgrade vs new versions.
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I... don't think that that's my problem -- I'm upgrading from XP Professional to Ultimate. This WWW page indicates that this is possible: <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradepaths.mspx>. I don't care whether I do an in-place upgrade or clean install; I just want to get Vista on this VM.

It would be nice if Parallels support would chime in on this thread... :-/

TH
 
tharpold said:
I... don't think that that's my problem -- I'm upgrading from XP Professional to Ultimate. This WWW page indicates that this is possible: <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradepaths.mspx>. I don't care whether I do an in-place upgrade or clean install; I just want to get Vista on this VM.

It would be nice if Parallels support would chime in on this thread... :-/

TH
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Is there any possibility of Parallels support replying to simple user queries? I now have a copy of Parallels which is only of use to me for running historical Windows OSes. I cannot upgrade or fresh install any version of Vista (I've tried Ultimate and Home Premium) over an XP Professional install because of this "standard PC driver nonsense" and no one from Parallels has shown the slightest interest in my queries and the several other people here who've run into the same problem...

TH
 
Exactly the same problem here with P3 build #5638. Any help from the Parallels team would be greatly appreciated but I'm starting to wonder if they really care a great deal.
 
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