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OK, this one seems backwards to me. My XP Boot Camp installation failed after 4 months of relatively trouble free operation. Parallels started flaking out about a month ago, so I started to use Fusion. Long story short, I blew away the partition and installed Vista Enterprise instead. All seemed to go well, and I successfully set up the Parallels VM using the Boot Camp partition. However, I can no longer boot into Boot Camp Vista. It hangs every time at the dotted progress line (or whatever it's called). I've tried repairs via the Boot Camp install process and have reinstalled the Boot Camp Drivers - to no avail. The strange thing is that I am still able to get into the Vista partition using Parallels. In fact, it works great! What would cause the Boot Camp startup to fail that wouldn't also affect Parallels? Very perplexing.
I used to be a Mac hater, then I softened up and accepted them. Now, I hate PCs and Macs. One is just as frustrating as the other.
Any help would be appreciated.
Ed

Ask or look on Parallels forum.
The upgrade to Leopard and BootCamp 2.0 has bitten more than a couple, almost "out of the blue" just like you.
Vista Recovery Console or Environment would be one. Boot from Vista DVD and see if it can repair the partition.
The latest Parallels for Leopard are pretty much "test this for us" in some cases.
There are problems with Fusion 1.1 (beta) along with Leopard, too. I don't like the way Fusion degraded my BootCamp graphics (Nvidia Vista 64-bit) to "generic" and some other issues so I am waiting for these VMs to mature.
Also, I'm guessing that there aren't a lot of people using Enterprise or that have access to it. Business and Ultimate, yes. And Apple doesn't officially support x64 (though it seemed to install better this time around).
Don't beta test or adopt a new OS or anything.
I keep Vista on its own drive and it works quite well (user error: installed Norton SystemWorks).
XP failed. Parallels flaked out. Fusion died an early death. All have some common elements.

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