Have I Lost Everything?

So, I had a working W7 VM and Bootcamp partition. All the trouble started when I booted into the Bootcamp partition. It actually wouldn't boot at first so I deleted then recreated the Bootcamp partition using Bootcamp Assistant. At that point I was able to boot into Windows however upon re-booting into OS X, I was now unable to use any VMs. My VM list was 'My Bootcamp' and 'Windows 7'. The Windows 7 VM complained that files had been changed and then just refused to boot. I went to Time Machine and restored the VMs the way they were and then it worked but now I couldn't boot into the Bootcamp partition anymore.

Now I have re-partitioned the internal drive thinking that I would have two partitions with OS X and one for Bootcamp. Of course now Bootcamp won't work with an internal drive that has been partitioned. At this point my VM files are very small, like 8.5 MB or so, when they used to be 3.5GB. I don't understand what happened.

I really just want to grab two Visio files off my previous partitions however I cannot launch any VM's, even VM's I pull from a Time Machine backup.

I don't understand what has happened. I have used VMware before and it was not a problem to move VM containers around. There were no dependencies on partitions or files outside the VM. I suppose this is not how Parallels works? If so then it is not the app for me.

At any rate from what I described have I pretty much lost all my VM data? I do have good TM backups going back to October. Is there any way to pull data off them without having to launch the VM?

Thanks for any guidance.

 

Scratch this, I have uninstalled Parallels in favor of VMware. I'm disappointed at the inactivity on these forums. Additionally, VMware is more stable and allows you to move your VMs around like any other files without catastrophic results.