CANNOT COPY .hdd NOR .hds file

psyked · Sep 26, 2008

Hi, having issues with parallel,

I'm trying to copy the .hds as per the " Error message "Hdd file is missing, corrupted, or used by other application" appears upon virtual machine startup" article and my imac osx lepoard intel can't copy the file , I get the following error message

The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "windowsxp.hdd.0.{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}.hds could not be read or written (Error code -36)

I've been able to copy the .hds when I faced a parallel error a few months ago but for some reason cannot do so this time..

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

cheers

Paul

John@Parallels · Sep 26, 2008

As a first step please restart Mac and perform permissions repair, also make sure that you do not copy hds file to disk with FAT32 partition

psyked · Sep 27, 2008

Thanks John, that was the frist thing I tried but no luck

John@Parallels · Sep 27, 2008

Where do you copy that hds file ?
on the same HDD or to external?
What is format for external drive?

psyked · Sep 28, 2008

I have tried copying file to both same disk and external disk both times with no success (always get an error message when it gets to 10.10 gigs - 30.1 gigs to be copied in total)

both disks are formatted mac os extended (journaled)

John@Parallels · Sep 29, 2008

It looks like file system corruption
Try fsck in single user mode as http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417

psyked · Sep 29, 2008

thanks John, tried this but regrettably... no luck

John@Parallels · Sep 30, 2008

Could you perform following command in Terminal and let me know output:
cd Documents/Parallels

ls -RlOa

psyked · Oct 4, 2008

john is there anyway i can email this to u , there's too much data to post (over 10,000) characters..

John@Parallels · Oct 4, 2008

You can create ticket in support will ask the same information