Unable to launch Parallels

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Daveb580

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Hi

When I try to start parallels I get the following message

Virtual machine cannot be started because of the following problem:
Parallels Desktop is unable to access the virtual hard disk image file /Virtual Machines/Microsoft Windows XP/windows.hdd. The file is used by other application.

I have tried deleting the .lck file and i then get an error message saying:

Virtual machine cannot be started because of the following problem:
Parallels Desktop is unable to access the virtual hard disk image file /Virtual Machines/Microsoft Windows XP/winxp.hdd. The file is corrupted

Any help would be appreciated.
 
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I have tried that already and there is no .lnk file associated with winxp.hdd

There is a .lnk file associated with windows.hdd but see above as to what happened when I removed that file.
 
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Hello,

1. In the Finder, browse to the virtual machine folder (the default path is: Documents-Parallels-Virtual Machine).
2. Find and delete the ".sav" and ".mem" files in the virtual machine folder.

And then again try to look at the article that I gave you above - it differs from the one you talk about I suppose, there is no mentions of .lck files. I suppose, you should repeat the steps from the article for both .hdd files.
 
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Hello,

which file, it says, is corrupted now? windows.hdd or winxp.hdd?

Have you taken a .hds file out of thу package and reset a path to the hard disk image? Was it normal or were there any error messages?
 
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