Today I plugged a USB device into my MAC while using my VM. It is not a new USB device - I have used it many many times on this same VM. When I pugged in the USB device, my MAC Crash with the message about pressing power to reset. I reset my MAC and started Parallels to load my VM and Parallels game me the message "VM is Corrupt, Cannot open". Then started to send me through the process of creating a brand new VM. What happened to all my data? Is it gone? Is My VM gone? Is there any way to recover? I am using 4.0 and I must say it has a lot more issues that 3.0 did. Wish I wouldnt have upgraded...
I suppose during Mac OS panic ,Mac OS file system was corrupted, Try to perform following steps 1. Right click on PVM file - Show Package contents 2. Right click on hdd file - Show Package contents 3. Locate file with hds extension and move it to parent folder where pvm is located, rename it to hdd 4. Start Parallels Desktop, not VM, Configure- Hard Disk 1- and point hard disk 1image to be newly renamed hds file, 5. If it gives you conversion warning, click OK, start VM probably if file system corruption didn't affect that file, you will be able to start VM
