WTF is Windows doing?

[stolzy]

Windows 7 running on my mac. The disk is thrashing the whole time windows is running. Everything slowed down to a crawl and eventually everything crashes.

Windows claims to be finding a solution, but it never does (does it ever?).

Just spent ages trying to find out why I got a BSOD every time I tried to boot up - turns out it was a corrupt disk! Why would a corrupt volume stop the OS from starting? Mac OS X just starts up with a warning that the disk couldn't be read and proposes to reformat it.

If I could find a decent accounts package I could reformat the windows volume and never have to see it again!

 

[tuftywhite]

I use Easy Books for Mac/iPad/iPhone for my accounts. Can do personal, business and sole trader stuff.

Also multi company. Easy to use and syncs between Macs and iOS devices. Free to use upto 100 ish transactions.

If you use VM Ware, when your Windows instance is sorted, try taking periodic snapshots to be able to recover back to. Not helpful now, I realise, but it's an idea.

 

[Deleted account 190920001]

Why do you think windows would be OK when its files are corrupt? If files belonging to windows or whatever its trying to run are unreadable its hardly surprising its having a hard time. It will also be trying to recover the lost/corrupt data as well hence the disk thrashing. If its just gotten corrupted then format and re install but it might actually be the hard drive failing in which case a drive replacement is in order.

 

[stolzy]

Why do you think windows would be OK when its files are corrupt? If files belonging to windows or whatever its trying to run are unreadable its hardly surprising its having a hard time. It will also be trying to recover the lost/corrupt data as well hence the disk thrashing. If its just gotten corrupted then format and re install but it might actually be the hard drive failing in which case a drive replacement is in order.

The disk that is faulty is nothing to do with windows its a Mac HFS formatted on a different physical disk. If I unplug the faulty disk then Windows boots OK, if not I get a BSOD.

Mac OS X boots OK whether or not the disk is installed.

Don't see why windows shouldn't be able to boot because there's a faulty disk on the system

 

[stolzy]

I use Easy Books for Mac/iPad/iPhone for my accounts. Can do personal, business and sole trader stuff.

Also multi company. Easy to use and syncs between Macs and iOS devices. Free to use upto 100 ish transactions.

If you use VM Ware, when your Windows instance is sorted, try taking periodic snapshots to be able to recover back to. Not helpful now, I realise, but it's an idea.

I looked at EasyBooks, but it doesn't do PAYE and there were some other quirks that i don't recall now.

VMWare seems to cause as many problems as it solves. For the occasions when I have to use Windows I just boot from a Windows partition.

 

[cookie]

I don't have any problems with VMware apart from them wanting me to update it frequently. I stopped bothering with that as it gets costly.

I know Springer of this parish runs sage on a mac using VMware with no issues that I'm aware of.

 

[Springer]

I don't have any problems with VMware apart from them wanting me to update it frequently. I stopped bothering with that as it gets costly.

I know Springer of this parish runs sage on a mac using VMware with no issues that I'm aware of.

I actually run Quickbooks Pro and it runs fine on VMware

 

[Nutty]

Are you running Windows through Bootcamp or Parallels? I run it through Parallels on mine and it works fine.

Can you run VMware on a Mac? The only reason I have Windows is because I'm running QB 2013 Pro.

 

[stolzy]

Are you running Windows through Bootcamp or Parallels? I run it through Parallels on mine and it works fine.

Can you run VMware on a Mac? The only reason I have Windows is because I'm running QB 2013 Pro.

I run windows via a boot partition/bootcamp. I have run parallels and do run VMware, but both seem like more trouble than they're worth.

My main problem is with windows itself, unstable, boot problems for trivial reasons. And why, when an application crashes, does it so often bring the OS down with it?

 

[Sebnev]

VMWare/Parallels is the way to go. I use a mac with Parallels to run either Windows 7 or an XP box (work have some applications that are windows/IE only).

Parallels has been rock steady since I've had it 3 years back (apart from once just after initial setup - but that was user error and reverting to and old snapshot fixed it in about a minute).