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- February 28th, 2008, 08:05 PM #1
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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.
- February 28th, 2008, 08:36 PM #2
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- February 29th, 2008, 01:30 AM #3
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- February 29th, 2008, 11:38 AM #4
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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!!
- February 29th, 2008, 01:22 PM #5
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Glad it worked
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- April 5th, 2008, 02:13 PM #6
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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?
- April 6th, 2008, 04:05 AM #7
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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.)
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- April 6th, 2008, 04:06 AM #8
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Duplicate, mods, please remove!
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