Yesterday i updated my parallels 8.0 to the latest version, 8.0.18.314.
Everything went just fine except when I started the Windows 7 64 Pro Bootcamp partition from the Mac, and Parallels wanted to update Parallels tools to the latest version.
For some reason the tools update process failed with an error and the updater requested to reboot and try again. Did so, but then the W7 bootcamp partition went BSOD immediately after trying to boot the OS. Tried to boot the partition natively : same results, BSOD. Started the recovery tools and Windows would not even recognize the OS partition. After running the OS "Start up fix" tool, the partition was shown and I could access my files from the recovery disk CMD. However, still cannot boot the OS. Apparently the registry has been left corrupted in the process, and now trying to boot the partition results in an error stating the registry is screwed.
The solution would be to try to restore to a previous system point or from a backup but since I had disabled all this so I could save some SSD space I can´t do that and apparently my only option left now is to reinstall everything from scratch.
using a mid-2012 MBP-R 15" i7 2.3 8GB on OSX 10.8.2. Don't know which Parallels 8.0 build i was updating from but I am pretty sure I was updated to the latest version available before 8.0.18.3114
Everything went just fine except when I started the Windows 7 64 Pro Bootcamp partition from the Mac, and Parallels wanted to update Parallels tools to the latest version.
For some reason the tools update process failed with an error and the updater requested to reboot and try again. Did so, but then the W7 bootcamp partition went BSOD immediately after trying to boot the OS. Tried to boot the partition natively : same results, BSOD. Started the recovery tools and Windows would not even recognize the OS partition. After running the OS "Start up fix" tool, the partition was shown and I could access my files from the recovery disk CMD. However, still cannot boot the OS. Apparently the registry has been left corrupted in the process, and now trying to boot the partition results in an error stating the registry is screwed.
The solution would be to try to restore to a previous system point or from a backup but since I had disabled all this so I could save some SSD space I can´t do that and apparently my only option left now is to reinstall everything from scratch.
using a mid-2012 MBP-R 15" i7 2.3 8GB on OSX 10.8.2. Don't know which Parallels 8.0 build i was updating from but I am pretty sure I was updated to the latest version available before 8.0.18.3114