Hi,
I got my Macbook roughly one month ago and I'm really enjoying the improved performance over my Ibook. I got parallels pre installed from Macmall and it came with Parallels working fine with XP. But yesterday I was booting up XP when I got this message
"Virtual machine cannot be started because of the following problem:
Parallels Desktop is unable to access the virtual hard disk image file /Users/user/Documents/Parallels/Microsoft Windows XP/winxp.hdd. The file is used by other application."
What is wrong and how can I fix it?
Thanks
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when i had a problem like this before, I think it was basically the fact that another program was using that file.
So try quitting all of the programs open, and see if it helps. -
Thats the thing, No other program is in use besides Finder itself. I used activity monitor to make sure. I've also restarted my comp and zapped the PRAM just incase. Any help?
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thnksfrthmmrs Notebook Evangelist
Did Mac Mall give you a disc so that you can reinstall Parallels? Hmmm Mac Mall... suspicious.
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Yes, they gave me a Parallels Disc along with Windows XP.
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I am having the same problem, anyone know the solution to this problem?
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Try this:
Copy the WinXP hdd to a same location.
Copy it to the original location, deleting the one that's there.
Try it now.
Macbook Parallels Woes
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by I pass on Vista, Jan 19, 2008.