I there any help

Jun 15, 2007, 03:32 AM #1
eeimac Junior Member Join: Jun 2007 Posts: 2	I there any help I did changed size of virtual hard disk but on wrong place... After i see that all info on that virtaul disk is lost Is ther eany way to bring data back, becuse there where very importatnt files

Jun 15, 2007, 05:07 AM #2
unused_user_name Senior Member Join: Jun 2006 Posts: 501	Where did you change the size? __________________ MacBookPro C2D 2.4Ghz, 4gb RAM, 200gb Disk, 1tb USB2 Disk 2x Win XP Pro VM, 512mb RAM, 30gb Disk Win 2k VM, 265 mb RAM, 20 gb Disk Fedora 7 VM, 512mb RAM, 20gb Disk Red Hat Enterprise Linux (64 bit) VM, 512mb RAM, 20gb Disk Minix VM, 128mb RAM, 200mb Disk

Jun 15, 2007, 09:02 AM

eeimac
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Quote:

Originally Posted by unused_user_name

Where did you change the size?

ON create /recreate main menu.. (2.5) version

Jun 15, 2007, 09:27 AM #4
Ynot Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 385	You recreatred your disk instead of increasing its size... Unfortunately, all data lost completely and cant' be restored.

Jun 15, 2007, 10:02 AM #5
AlanH Senior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 323	It sounds as though this is too late to help you, but here's my approach to securing my user data: 1. My virtual Windows disk only contains the guest OS and its settings, plus my Windows applications. It contains none of my precious user data. "My Documents" is empty. 2. I use shared folders in my Mac OS X user space to store all my documents created using Windows apps, so even if I lose the whole Windows VM, virtual drive etc. and have to recreate a Windows environment ... even in another virtualization product or on a PC ... I still have my documents. They are not stored within the virtual disk. 3. My normal backup routine creates backup copies of my OS X user folder to an external hard drive, and this includes the shared folders where Parallels/Windows saves documents. So they are also secure against an OS X disk failure. The other benefit of this approach is that I can access documents using OS X apps if necessary, without even launching Parallels. I use this to get to text and spreadsheet reports from my Windows accounts package, for example. Maybe someone will tell why me this is not a great idea, but I think it works for me. __________________ Alan 4 GByte Mac Pro, Geforce 7300GT. Leopard 10.5.0 Parallels Desktop for Mac, build 5580. Win XP Pro SP2 and Centos VMs.

Jun 15, 2007, 10:02 AM

AlanH
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It sounds as though this is too late to help you, but here's my approach to securing my user data:

1. My virtual Windows disk only contains the guest OS and its settings, plus my Windows applications. It contains none of my precious user data. "My Documents" is empty.

2. I use shared folders in my Mac OS X user space to store all my documents created using Windows apps, so even if I lose the whole Windows VM, virtual drive etc. and have to recreate a Windows environment ... even in another virtualization product or on a PC ... I still have my documents. They are not stored within the virtual disk.

3. My normal backup routine creates backup copies of my OS X user folder to an external hard drive, and this includes the shared folders where Parallels/Windows saves documents. So they are also secure against an OS X disk failure.

The other benefit of this approach is that I can access documents using OS X apps if necessary, without even launching Parallels. I use this to get to text and spreadsheet reports from my Windows accounts package, for example.

Maybe someone will tell why me this is not a great idea, but I think it works for me.

__________________
Alan

4 GByte Mac Pro, Geforce 7300GT. Leopard 10.5.0
Parallels Desktop for Mac, build 5580.
Win XP Pro SP2 and Centos VMs.

Jun 15, 2007, 11:45 AM

dkp
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Quote:

Originally Posted by AlanH

Maybe someone will tell why me this is not a great idea, but I think it works for me.

It is a good idea and has been recommended in the past as a best practices way to safely use virtual machines. It was especially true during the early days with the beta code but holds true with released code, too. I've done it this way from the beginning with all my virtual OS's except that I don't use (Parallels) shared folders.

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