I have a windows7 image (plain minus our work s/w) that i use in several Mac computers with no problems (all 10.5.8) Now, i bought a new MacMini. When i launch windows, it behinds to start then gets stuck in the "loading windows" and locks up the whole mac!!! i have left it on this screen for hours and nothing has happen. A force restart of the whole computer is the only way to fix this. 1. Windows boots fine in safe mode. 2. i have repaired all permissions on the mac, it made no difference. What gives?
fixed it... turned out to be a memory problem with the computer itself (weird i only had issues with parallels) replacing the RAM fixed the problem.