XP not installing!

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Karanime

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Okay, so I loaded everything up, Parallels is good, and XP pro started the installation. Everything looks normal, except...

Setup will complete in approximately:
39 minutes


It's said this for about two hours now.


The text is transitioning, telling me about all the fantabulous features of XP. The little green squares in the bottom right are moving like they're supposed to.

Just 39 more minutes now... and 39 more after that...

What's going on?


Thanks in advance,

/<3 Kara
 
Steps to try:
1, Custom installation
as described in Parallels Desktop for Mac user guide from http://www.parallels.com/en/download/file/doc/Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac_User_Guide.pdf on page 67

2. Disable Intel-VTx support and Hardware accelertion

All this assumes that CD is normal
also you can try ISO image
1. Insert CD/DVD source

2Start Terminal from Applicatins/Utilities, you can then determine the device that is you CD/DVD drive using the following command:

$ drutil status
Vendor Product Rev
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-835E GAND

Type: DVD-ROM Name: /dev/disk1
Cur Write: 8x DVD Sessions: 1
Max Write: 8x DVD Tracks: 1
Overwritable: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB
Space Free: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB
Space Used: 364:08:27 blocks: 1638627 / 3.36GB / 3.13GiB
Writability:
Book Type: DVD-ROM

3. Umount the disk with the following command:

$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Disk /dev/disk1 unmounted

4. Create the ISO file with the dd utility (may take some time):

$ dd if=/dev/disk1 of=file.iso bs=2048

5. Test the ISO image by mounting the new file (or open with Finder):

$ hdid file.iso
 
I have a problem when I tried to install Windows XP last night - as well as the issue encountered by Karanime, I got the following error message:

svchost.exe - Application error: the instruction at "0x77f5215c" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "written". Click on ok to terminate the program.

& I had no option but to do so .... any ideas? I will also try the above for Custion installation, as I'd tried setting it up as "Express".

Thanks.

cybertwit
 
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