[Mike the Knife]

I did a clean Leopard install but left my BootCamp partition in tact. Never booted into it, just into Leopard and installed Parallels. Works fine in Parallels but when I try to boot directly into Windows, I get BSOD.

Do I need to update the BootCamp drivers? I thought this was automatically done. Can I use the Apple software update to update the drivers from within Parallels VM or will that not work? Thanks!

[ghporter]

I don't think Leopard can do anything to your Windows partition, so I'd say NO, the drivers didn't get updated automatically, though the Boot Camp Utility definitely was. There shouldn't be any problem with running XP through Parallels or VMware; I've installed drivers through Parallels. But it's not necessarily a driver problem. It sounds like a goobered boot record or something like that.

The fix for this is a "repair installation" of XP. Here are the instructions for doing this. Easy to do, doesn't destroy your data or installed programs, probably good for your teeth, too. Once you've done this, you'll have to install any current fixes and updates, and then install the drivers (simply insert the Leopard disc; they're on it).