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February 28th, 2008, 09:05 PM
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| Help w/ Parallels & Windows XP- Please Hello, I recently purchased both parallels and a retail version of windows xp to be able to run certain programs on my mac. Everything seemed to go fine as I followed the instructions and installed parallels. I did the express installation of windows xp. Now, I don't know what to do as when I open the windows xp parallels icon, I have a black screen that says the following: 640 KB Base Memory 524288 KB Extended Memory Boot from hard drive... NTLDR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart What is going on? Why can't I see Windows? Where do I go from here? I thought I was pretty good with computers, but I'm lost with all this stuff. I just want to get windows running properly so that I can run my other programs.  |
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February 28th, 2008, 09:36 PM
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| Did you actually install XP? Try starting it up with the XP disk in the drive.
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February 29th, 2008, 02:30 AM
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__________________ MacBook Pro | Dell Mini Inspiron 9 with Ubuntu | Mac Mini | Newton 2000 | @Work : Dell D620 & 2x20" + a lot of Macs | Workstation, VC & Fusion Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. ~ Samuel Clemens | Rants | Photos |
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February 29th, 2008, 12:38 PM
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| Thanks so much!!!! I went to the link you provided and it was exactly the error I needed to fix. Something wasn't set properly in the configurations. It still took me about an hour to fix everything and even just going through the windows files, I kept getting error after error. I just kept retrying and it finally all went through. Just more confirmation to me why I switched to Mac and will never go back to windows as a main os. Yuck! Thanks again!! |
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February 29th, 2008, 02:22 PM
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| Glad it worked 
__________________ MacBook Pro | Dell Mini Inspiron 9 with Ubuntu | Mac Mini | Newton 2000 | @Work : Dell D620 & 2x20" + a lot of Macs | Workstation, VC & Fusion Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. ~ Samuel Clemens | Rants | Photos |
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April 5th, 2008, 03:13 PM
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| Error message running Windows XP on Parallels When I try to use Windows XP on a MacBook through Parallels I'm getting the following error. <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll "Please re-install a copy of the above file." Tried to reinstall Windows but doesn't seem to be working. Any suggestions? |
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April 6th, 2008, 05:05 AM
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| The HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is one of the first files loaded by NT and its successors during boot. It's the hardware dependend part of the kernel. You have a broken Windows installation and you should try to reinstall it from the installation media. Once you have a working Windows, do make a backup copy of your virtual disk or create a snapshot in parallels! These are safe places to return to if something goes badly wrong (as is common with Windows installations.) Marcus |
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