Parallels stopped working "Non system disk or disk error" after archiving

Hi everyone,
In the dialogue to safe harddrive space I accidentally clicked on "archiving". Then, Parallels was busy "archiving", whatever that meant - and afterwards I had to retreive Windows. (Sorry about the wording, I've got the German version and everything is called differently.)

Now I can't boot windows anymore, the starting screen flickers between "Non system disk or disk error" and
"Boot Skipped. Windows Boot Manager
Boot Skipped. EFI Hard Drive

I tried to reconnect the harddrive to the hdd file in the pvm package, also I tried to de-/activate EFI with vm.bios.efi=1 and vm.bios.efi=0 ...
Any idea what I can do? I didn't do anything fancy, basically just clicked on a button Parallels was offering... :-/

Any help appreciated!
Thanks
Stephan

If it helps: I've got Windows 10 running on Parallels 14 (normally)

 

@StephanS7, are you able to mount your hdd to Mac?

 

I'm sorry, I don't exactly understand what you mean?

 

Check this article and try to mount your vm hdd

 

Thanks! Yes, that works - these ones show up:
C containing a folder called "System Volume Information"
D containing "System Volume Information" and "Recovery"
E conaining "EFI"

 

Dear Maria,
could you please have a look at my reply above? I still could not resolve the problem described...
Thank you

 

Hm - is anyone else from the Parallels Team here? Or do I need to start another thread?
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks

 

@StephanS7, do yo have any backup of your VM or hard drive? Also are you able to access your files (personal data) on the mounted disk?

 

Hi Maria,
checking the folders of the mounted disks as described in the post below, I don't find any personal data. Also even though the package size is 15GB, the folder sizes don't indicate much content:
C containing a folder called "System Volume Information" (20KB)
D containing "System Volume Information" (20KB) and "Recovery" (414MB)
E containing "EFI" (329KB)

Regarding the backup, which file/folder would I need to recover from my time machine? Just the .pvm?

Thank you
Stephan

 

Hi,
I was able to recover the backup, using the .pvm file. The backup is not too outdated, so it works for me - but in general I find it strange that the "archiving" function of Parallels seems to have shredded my VM...
Thanks for your help.
Stephan

 

Glad to know that your backup works, I'll test the archiving process on my side and continue the issue investigation.