dennyc@wbcable.net
Bit poster
Have been frequently running Parallels 8 with a Windows XP Virtual machine/virtuall disk and a bootcamp partition as a second hard disc.
Yesterday the VM refused to shut down, freezing with a white screen. Parallels was unresponsive and I had to force-quit.
After that, it demanded that I register Windows every time I tried to start it up, and I think I saw a DOS message about "can't find hard disk".
I could run from a backed up VM if I could extract a few recent files from the bad VM. However, I can't find Parallels Mounter anywhere. This is a fairly new installation, but I reinstalled and opened the backed up VM. But every time I try to open a file with OPen with / Parallels Mounter, it just blinks and does nothing. Tried searching for Parallels mounter, and came up with nothing. I did another reinstall did "Install Parallels Tools". This seemed to run and to complete normally, but still no sign of Parallels Mounter.
Suggestions?
Yesterday the VM refused to shut down, freezing with a white screen. Parallels was unresponsive and I had to force-quit.
After that, it demanded that I register Windows every time I tried to start it up, and I think I saw a DOS message about "can't find hard disk".
I could run from a backed up VM if I could extract a few recent files from the bad VM. However, I can't find Parallels Mounter anywhere. This is a fairly new installation, but I reinstalled and opened the backed up VM. But every time I try to open a file with OPen with / Parallels Mounter, it just blinks and does nothing. Tried searching for Parallels mounter, and came up with nothing. I did another reinstall did "Install Parallels Tools". This seemed to run and to complete normally, but still no sign of Parallels Mounter.
Suggestions?