Help! Error Message:Unable to change virtual machine permissions

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I just moved my Parallels 7 Windows XP virtual machine to a new computer. In the old machine, the VM was sitting on the single hard drive. Note that my new machine has a small ssd with the OS & apps (like Parallels) sitting on it; the vm is sitting on a second larger hard drive as its far too big for the ssd primary drive.
I had no problems setting setting up Parallels 7 in the new machine & restarted the vm in Parallels with no problem.

After setting up some new software (including a Microsoft keyboard utility) & looking at a few compression options in Parallels I rebooted my machine. Now when I try to open my Windows XP vm I get the following error message:

Unable to change virtual machine permissions.
Parallels Desktop cannot set the required permissions for one or more objects in the virtual machine folder. Contact the Parallels support team for assistance.

I don't recall changing anything in Parallels. I have no idea what this error message means or how to correct it.
thankjs
 
Did you happen find a solution?

FYI, for me the drive had somehow become write-only. (pvm file stored on an external drive)
Un-Mounted, remounted, and it was fine.
 
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FYI, for me, running parallels workstation under win7 ultimate 64, I simply had to run the parallels as admin.
That cleared up the issue.

Damn UAC.....
 
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