Search results

And as another update, when loading the windows VM it gives the following "There is no operating system installed in this virtual machine. Please insert an operating system installation CD into the optical drive of your Mac and restart the virtual machine.". This was after the one about not...

As an update, I looked into the windows pvm file and found the hdd and mounted it with parallels mounter. I can see my files there so can salvage the data files and other downloaded files anyway.

My mac crashed with hard disk problems and needed a new HD. So a new instal etc. I had a time machine backup of parallels and my VMs. I restored parallels and got that working. I puled back the pvm files with time machine. One of the Linux ones loaded ok, the other linux machine and my...

depressing Parallels suport have suggested various options to restart or repair it and nothing has worked so far. I suspect I will have to uninstall parallels and start again, or at least that particular VM. I will post here again if I manage to find a solution without doing that though.

Update I viewed the pvm and did a 'show package contents' and found the hdd file there. I tried using mounter on the hdd file and got a 'cannot open' message.

I installed this a few weeks ago and it worked fine, most impressed. Then I had a system crash and now windos always fail to load on the black screen with the message "Trying to boot from SATA drive 1..." I tried to use mounter to load the pvm file, but it said it cannot do so; I tried to...