Can't clone machines: Please help!

[MacDream]

Parallels 5 stopped working properly.

I can't clone a Windows XP machine either via "Clone..." from the Parallels menu, or through a "copy and paste" using Finder. They are made partially and none will start.
Through Parallels the final message says that the cloning is done, but it is not.
It will only make a machine of 5.34 GB out of one of 15 GB.

Using Finder will stop at 5.34 GB copied and tosses an error message:

I went to look for the culprit file opening all "package contents" and copying and pasting.
The part that can't be copied is "Windows XP-New-0.hdd.0.{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}"
There is no problem with any of the other files.

I've tried the dot_clean trick to no avail

Other similar machine with Windows 7 I have can be copied without problems to "any" of my externals or internal HD.
(All of then with lots of space o fit the machine)

I made the machine from scratch yesterday after failing with the machine I was using before (6 months old).

I updated Parallels 5 to the last "update" yesterday, but no dice.

I will really appreciate if somebody can give me some help to solve this issue.
Thanks a lot in advance.

MacMini
1.66 GHZ Intel Core Duo
2 GB RAM
OS X Ver 10.6.4

 

[joevt]

-36 is an I/O error. Maybe you have bad blocks on the disk where that file is stored. Make sure you're copying to a different disk. Try using dd to copy the file instead of Parallels or the Finder:

dd if=thesourcefilethatdoesntcopy.hds of=myoutfile.hds conv=noerror

Run the command when Parallels isn't running. dd will tell you if it encounters any bad blocks and will skip them. You won't be able to easily tell which Windows files are damaged by the missing blocks. If your virtual hard drive was an expanding hard drive it may be damaged beyond repair - try to expand it to see if that's the case.

If your disk has bad blocks then it should be replaced.