Actually - I did finally get it to work by renaming the INF folder completely since just that one file was locked - some reason it let me change the folder's name. Then I made a new folder, copied everything into it, and put the new volume.inf file in there. Now parallels see the bootcamp partition, but I'm in an endless 'preparing automatic repair'. I used a support command prompt to put the INF folders back how they were, but it didn't make any difference. It's such a shame this works right out of the box with VMWare fusion - parallels is just so much faster for windows.
Parallels won't boot despite following directions to install. Discussion in 'Windows, Linux & Others on the Mac' started by pentrixter, Mar 31, 2007. One last question: is there a task manager for parallels windows xp? Ctrl alt del. I think the original poster was installing XP so clening the install disk solved his issue.