Windows 7 crash/death at Parallel

[JarosławB]

Hello,
today mornig i get a:

and after restart my VM .pvr(.hdd) decreases suddenly from 100gb to 0,5gb it seems to be lost the all data at windows. when i try to start my vm i get info:

"There is no operating system installed in this virtual machine. Please insert an operating system installation CD into the optical drive of your Mac and restart the virtual machine.
For more information, see Parallels Desktop Help."

seems to be no windows 7 inside

Is anybody able to help? Did anybody hear about that problem and know the solution?
Waiting for any response.

Best Regards,
Jarek

 

[ThomasEHealy]

Windows 7 - corrupt disk message

This afternoon I suddenly found my Win7 computer frozen. When I force-quit Parallels and tried to restart it, I got a message that the Win7 machine was corrupted. It turns out there were some other problems on my Mac (Intel G4 with 8Gb ram, including Microsoft Entourage acting up. So I quit everything, and tried to restart into TechTool Pro 6. The computer wouldn't restart after it screen-printed a lot of text (as though it were in single-user mode) about stuck this and that; had to manually push the stop button. On restart, I did log into TechTool's eDrive and restructured the volume system. Everything else seemed OK, so I restarted the Mac.

Rather than trying to immediately start Parallels, I trashed the application and reinstalled it from a fresh .DMG download from Parallels (which was the same 7.0.1.15054 that I previously had). That did the trick: the Win7 machine started OK after it asked whether to start normally.

So who knows what caused the problem, but I suspect something in the Parallels application caused it to mis-read the virtual machine.

By the way, I did have errors similar to yours earlier on my WinXP machine (I think I was in Parallels 6 at the time) - I went through a lot of trouble to re-create it; but now I wonder if the problem was a corrupted Parallels program; I'll never know.

So here's my suggestion:
(1) At a minimum, restart your Mac.
(2) If you have a disk protection program, run it to make sure the Mac's volumes are OK.
(3) You might do a single-user start (Command-S at startup), which allows the Mac to do its own cleanup, especially if you don't have a disk protection program.
(4) Trash your existing Parallels Desktop and reinstall from a fresh download. You shouldn't need to re-enter the serial number.
(5) Start the virtual machine; see if it now works.
Good luck.