I had the same question, and to answer it I did some tests, the results of which are described below: You may ask what could be the difference between the partition created by Boot Camp and that created by Vista CD so much so that deleting the Boot Camp partition and re-creating it using the Vista CD enabled vista installation to proceed but did not work with Parallels Desktop, whereas it worked the other way round as suggested by the Boot Camp manual? You must reformat the new Windows partition using the Windows installer." "Even though Boot Camp pre-formats the Windows partition, this partition can’t be used to boot the computer. This was the mistake, instead of deleting it to fix the problem I should have just formatted the partition again using the Vista installation CD, as described by the Boot Camp Manual: I did this because I had problem proceeding with the Vista installation using that partition and when I deleted it, Vista installation worked fine.
After doing some reading on forums discussing Mac/Windows/Parallels Desktop/Boot Camp, I figured out the cause of the error:ĭuring the Vista installation process, I deleted the partition that I created for Vista using the Boot Camp Assistant. Then when I ran Parallels Desktop, I had the "No Boot Device Found" error prompted.Ħ. When setting up Parallels Desktop, I choose to boot from the earlier Boot Camp partition for Vista and then did all the other standard configurations.ĥ. After having installed Vista, I booted into Leopard and installed Parallels Desktop.Ĥ. The installation was successful but not smooth, had some problems, which I will discuss later in the last few points.ģ. Rebooted the system and installed Vista on the new partition.
While in Leopard, I used Boot Camp Assistant to create a partition to setup MS Windows Vista.Ģ.
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Below I summarize my experience of setting up MS Windows (Vista) on Mac machine (OS X Leopard 10.5.2) using Boot Camp Assistant and Parallels Desktop:ġ.
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