Parallels 9 Cannot Find Bootcamp Volume

[MarkM55]

I have a 2013 MacBook Air running Mavericks 9.1. I have installed Windows 8.1 in BootCamp (which runs fine). When I launch Parallels 9 (Build 9.0.24172
(Revision 951362; Tuesday, December 3, 2013)) it cannot find my Bootcamp volume and shows the message attached. When I check the configuration menu in Parallels it look like it is pointing to drive 0:1 (attachment 2) but in the System Report in About this Mac it looks to me that Bootcamp is actually drive 0:4. When I try to reconfigure Parallels to drive 0:4 I get the following error message -

Error: PRL_ERR_DISK_FILE_EXISTS (0x80021012)
Path: '/Users/markmiller/Documents/Parallels/My Boot Camp.pvm/APPLE SSD SM0512F (disk0).hdd'

Any help getting my Parallels to run would be appreciated.

 

[Abdul@Parallels]

Hi MarkM55,

Please follow the steps as suggested at http://kb.parallels.com/118000

Thanks,
Abdul

 

[MarkM55]

Abdul,

I don't understand. Will this delete my BootCamp partition? BootCamp runs perfectly and I don't want to have to reinstall it.

Mark

Hi MarkM55,

Please follow the steps as suggested at http://kb.parallels.com/118000

Thanks,
Abdul

 

[MarkM55]

Thanks. I didn't understand at first but by actually reading what was in the KB and following directions it worked like a charm. Thanks

 

[chuckkahn]

There's so many articles I've tried on parallels.com and this finally fixed it.