I have Win XP installed on external drive in Parallels Desktop 3.0 Build 4128.
Parallels was working fine yesterday, today upon virtual machine startup it says: "Hdd file is missing, corrupted, or used by other application"...
It all started with external drive mounted on a diferent mount point, instead of EXT_DRV, it mounted on EXT_DRV 1. I fixed the mounting problem and then I got the error above.
I tried this solution: http://kb.parallels.com/entry/28/527/, but now when I start the VM it says there's no Operating System installed... and I can't access this drive with Parallels Explorer either.
I cheked the content of my winxp.hdd image and there are 4 files in it, one is xml and 3 are hds one of which has 0 size and other two are ONLY 29MB!! each. This isn't right, since the drive was 108GB yesterday. I have no idea what could have happend....
Is there a way to fix this or atleast recover some files? There are some very important data on the drive.
Thank you,
D.
Parallels was working fine yesterday, today upon virtual machine startup it says: "Hdd file is missing, corrupted, or used by other application"...
It all started with external drive mounted on a diferent mount point, instead of EXT_DRV, it mounted on EXT_DRV 1. I fixed the mounting problem and then I got the error above.
I tried this solution: http://kb.parallels.com/entry/28/527/, but now when I start the VM it says there's no Operating System installed... and I can't access this drive with Parallels Explorer either.
I cheked the content of my winxp.hdd image and there are 4 files in it, one is xml and 3 are hds one of which has 0 size and other two are ONLY 29MB!! each. This isn't right, since the drive was 108GB yesterday. I have no idea what could have happend....
Is there a way to fix this or atleast recover some files? There are some very important data on the drive.
Thank you,
D.
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