Unable to boot windows in parallels

Thanks for your feedback. Currently the problem is solved but not sure it will back again tomorrow Let me answer ur questions:. I faced the issues since yesterday and this morning I call for activate again, now it looks fine and no problem.

Just I'm worry that it come again and I need to call again Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 1 person found this reply helpful. Chong Hoo. The problem is coming: 1 When I open Win 10, it display me Windows is not activated. Who can help me on it?

Thanks in advanced. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi Chong, Welcome to Microsoft Community. Click Continue ; from here, the Windows installation will begin. Once Windows is installed, launch it by opening a Windows application or by clicking the Power button in the Parallels Virtual Machines list. There you go! Before upgrading, you must check the following steps to make sure that your upgrade to Windows 10 will proceed smoothly.

Once you do…. Read on for a few helpful tips and tricks. The reason for this happening most of the time is because Windows updates were not installed properly. This should help. If not, contact Microsoft —this issue could happen on real PCs, too. This is a critical error, as there is no definite fix for this issue. The only sure way to fix this issue is to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows and perform the upgrade from scratch.

This happens only if your previous Windows was not activated. Yes, you can use Cortana on your Mac now. I hope you found this blog useful. Interested in running Windows 10 on your Mac? Want to install Windows 10 with one simple click?

More info here. Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am sorry to know that you are facing issues with the startup. Do not worry, will assist you with the issue. I do appreciate your efforts and time.

This bug check indicates that the Microsoft Windows operating system has lost access to the system partition during startup. File system initialization might have failed because it did not recognize the data on the boot device. I transferred a valid and activated copy of windows 10 free upgrade from Windows 7 to Parallels on my Mac. The copy in Parallels though says it is not activated. How do I activate this VM?

The original windows computer is now switched off and not used, but is a windows 7 virtual machine in Parallels on this Mac. If you have reserved and upgraded to Windows 10, we suggest you to contact the product activation team.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. The same windows instance, when launched via Parallels 11, as "My Boot Camp", loses activation. Rebooting to "native" Boot Camp allows Windows to activate again. So, I contacted Microsoft Activation support. They were quite helpful, but needed verification that my Win10 is an upgrade and not a clean install.