Daily Archives: 9/7/2006

Using VPC’s XP with Parallels Desktop

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I bought a new MacBook Pro about a month ago. Within the first couple days of getting it, I tried really hard to make the copy of Windows XP Pro that came along with Virtual PC work with the program. I followed instructions and tips all over the Internet and got lots of support from Nathaniel. Unfortunately, we always got stuck at a screen asking us to insert the disk labeled Windows XP … into drive A. I found other people having the same problem, but no one could offer up a solution that seemed to fix it.

I eventually just gave up. Fortunately, we had a copy of Windows XP Home that came with a Dell box that seemed to work with Parallels and allowed me to test the system for a few weeks. Well, Windows had been bugging me about product activiation being required in a few days so I figured it was time for a more permanent solution.

After hours of searching today and building a dozen or so ISO images, I finally decided to try putting the following files both in the root of the CD and in the i386 folder:

  • win51
  • win51ip
  • win51ip.sp2
  • win51ip.spx

I don’t know which files are actually required, nor do I care. It works!

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Can’t open file: ‘wp_comments.MYI’. (errno: 145)

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For the rest of you that have spent hours searching for how to fix the problem with the wordpress table (or any other table for that matter) that needs to be flushed because it didn’t get closed properly, here’s the short and sweet story of how to do it and get on with your life.

First, you can try going into phpMyAdmin and flushing the table, but that didn’t work for me. I fortunately have SSH access to the server, so I got in to the server and then issued the following:
mysql -u USER_NAME -p TABLE_NAME
Obviously, you need to substitute your own username and table name.
Once you’re into the mysql prompt, all you need to type is:
repair table wp_comments;
or, if you have another table to repair, the name of the table there.

Good luck! BTW – Comments should be working again. It was kind of nice not getting spam constatly while they were down though!

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