I had to manually migrate my data from my old mac to my new one (Migration Assistant did not work) with the old one in target disk mode. I was able to get everything except the most important file: my Imported Bootcamp virtual machine on the target disk. It says it can't be copied because it can't be read or written. I attempted to open it in Parallels and it wouldn't boot, saying there was no boot device. The path was correct. I changed the big .hds bundle in the .pvm file to a .hdd bundle and pointed Parallels to that, but it told me the file disk image was invalid and now it says it cannot connect to hard disk. I had been able to mount the drive before I changed the .hds to .hdd but now it tells me it will only open in read only and then says it cannot browse it. I changed it back to .hds again and it says the same thing. So I think the file is corrupt (not a huge surprise) but when I tried a disk utility to copy the salvageable pars (I tried dd, AKA disk duplicator) I got a permissions denied error. Can someone please help me muddle through all these errors? I still want to access and run the virtual machine (bootcamp windows 7) on my Yosemite Mac, but failing that I hope to at least have access to it, since it has all my work files on it. It's been quite a week.
Hi TaqiyyahM, In order to check the Virtual Hard Disk and to try accessing your files, you need a second Virtual Machine. Please follow the instructions given at http://kb.parallels.com/117778 Note : This article applies for Parallels Desktop 10 and such scenario were you need to recover your files from Virtual Hard disk.
