No boot device is available...

B

Boggio

Bit poster
Hi,

i've a problem with the virtual machine disk image.

1) I used my VM all day without problem.
2) I restarted my mac and i relaunched my virtual machine but during the boot of Parallel's VM the MacOs Crashed: the only solution was force restart my MacOs.
3) Reboot MacOs (all ok), try to relaunch VM but i received the following message: "No boot device available, press Enter to continue".
4) I checked and the VM's HardDisk is correctly stetted up but the file MyVirtualMachine.pvm is now only 600Mb (it was near 60Gb).

I tryied to open the *.hdd file with Parallels Mounter utility but it said that HD is damage..

So, what i can do!?!? I have important data on it..
 
1. You should boot from the recovery partition and use Disk Utility to Repair your drive/partitions.
2. If the file is still 600MB, restore it from backup.
3. If you don't have backup of your data you should stop using your drive immediately and contact a professional data recovery service.
 
Specimen said:
1. You should boot from the recovery partition and use Disk Utility to Repair your drive/partitions.
2. If the file is still 600MB, restore it from backup.
3. If you don't have backup of your data you should stop using your drive immediately and contact a professional data recovery service.
Click to expand...

Hi,

1) My HD isn't damage. The Parallels's Virtual Machine HardDisk is damage.
2) I was starting the virtual machine to make the backups of the day! I lost today's new data.
3) Isn't possible.

I'd like to know WHY Parallels causes MacOS crash!!!! i'd like to avoid another bad situation like this one!!

My Parallels version is: Build 7.0.15107 (Revision 796624; Mon, 03 Sep 2012).
 
1) The crash might have caused inconsistencies in the file system, and to recover from that I suggest you use disk utility like I said.

I'd like to know WHY Parallels causes MacOS crash!!!! i'd like to avoid another bad situation like this one!!
Click to expand...

You should consider it's possible that the Mac crashed because of an hardware problem (most crashes are).

Other than that I have no other suggestion, considering it's just one day data and you have backups the situation isn't as bad as I first thought. Also, FYI, Parallels 7 is no longer supported with updates.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top