pedro_sandchez Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 so I'm trying to get winxp setup with paralells on my new macbook pro. Ive installed parallels fine and I can get the windows installer to run. But everytime it gets to "installing windows" in the windows installer it just sits there at '39 minutes remaing' and then eventually I get an error: "one of the componenets that windows needs could not be installed. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error' any ideas what is causing this? I thought it might be because I didnt have the mouse/keyboard captured in the window so i retried it witht he mouse clicked into the parallels window and still no dice. I'd really like to get this going today because I need Matlab installed and I only have the windows version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro_sandchez Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 just reran it and I got a slightly different message "One of the componenets that windows needs to continue setup could not be installed Error performing inpage operation If you are installing from a CD there might be a problem with the disc If you are installing for the network, it is possable that not all of the files were copied correctly to your disk drive" thanks for any help you might have to offer pedro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidplasmaflow Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 It sounds like you have a bad Windows XP disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro_sandchez Posted November 13, 2006 Author Share Posted November 13, 2006 thanks, I managed to get it working. The windows CD must be on its last leg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schweppes Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 i dont have audio in Windows XP on parallels...i cant get it to work! what i can do to fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exadeath Posted November 13, 2006 Share Posted November 13, 2006 There are posts on the parallels forums complaining about the sound support in the latest builds. Evidentally the old 1848 build has working sound but crashes most newer Macs. The newer 1970 build has flakly sound but runs on the newer machines. The Parallels team has a small window to get these small yet very annoying issues(chronic USB faults in particular) worked out before VMWare rolls right over them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redmongoose Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 thanks, I managed to get it working. The windows CD must be on its last leg I'm getting the same errors. What did you do to get it working? Just keep trying until it makes it through? And, for anyone, is there any reason not to borrow a friend's XP cd and use my own activation code if I can't get my cd to work? Thanks for any help, this is very frustrating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Best bet for your windows xp disc is to copy if you can the more you run it itll get worse best copying it too a good cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redmongoose Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Best bet for your windows xp disc is to copy if you can the more you run it itll get worse best copying it too a good cd What kind of a copy? Do I need to make an image file on a windows machine (which i don't have) or can a make one on my mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 just image the disc on your mac and burn again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redmongoose Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 just image the disc on your mac and burn again Okay, I've tried that a few times and making the image always fails right at the end. I'm going to have to guess that the cd is bad... but is it possible that I just have a finicky cd drive and that it would work on a different drive (eg, a friend's computer or something)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Yes it is very possible that reading it on another cd it will work for you better still if you can read it in on a dvd rom theres more chance and read it in slow speed if possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redmongoose Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Any chance this is some kind of protection on the cd? It always fails right at the very end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlyboy Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 No windows disc arent protected only by your key for installation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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