Vista disk error - how to restart

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thomas pingel

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Vista is my Parallels virtual machine on a Mac. When I started Parallels (resume), I got a disk error message. Vista gives me the following instructions:

Windows Boot Manager
1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings and click 'Next'
3. Click "Repair your computer."

The failure is:
File: Windows/system32/winload.exe
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The selected file could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

Well, I inserted my disc on my Mac but I don't think Windows sees it. I can't get the computer to restart. I've quit Parallels with the 'stop' option. When I restart Parallels and choose my Vista virtual machine and 'click to start', the same black screen with the above instructions reappears.

How do I get the Vista machine to restart so I can 'repair' the computer? Or am I dead in the water?

TIA
 
I'm having the exact same issue, did you find a solution? I even tried changing the boot order for that virtual machine to CD but it did do anything.
 
I got it working again: I did a few things, 1. Increased the RAM associated with that VM. I increased the hard disk space associated with that VM (using the parallels Image Tool). I also changed the boot order for that VM to look at CD-DVD first. All of those things can be configured for that VM. Then I put in the Vista disc back in and pressing ctrl+alt+esc or something along those lines, ran the repair and it worked again.
 
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