Lost Virtual machine

My Virtual machine has disappeared. I have tried searching for it. The problem is, I have numerous hard discs and it may have been deleted. If so, I can recover it, as long as I know which disc and which partition. Is there anywhere which will show the patch to the ppm file? I can then attempt to restore.

 

Hello @JasonV2 , please refer http://kb.parallels.com/10109 to locate your Windows pvm file.
Thanks

 

Thanks but I have done that. I do not know which volume it was on. It may even have been renamed. I need to know what it was called, so I can try to recover it.

 

OK, I think I have found it, on a TimeMachine backup. It is 56Gb in size. I restore this and try to open. The first time I did this, the Windows desktop appeared and then it rebooted. When rebooting, it came up with a message:
A file or device required for the operation of Hard Disk 1 does not exist or is used by another process, or you have no permission to access it. The virtual machine will continue running, but the device will be disconnected.

I cannot open it now. Any idea on how I can restore this?

 

It is now saying the is No Os installed on this disc. It was working previously.

There is no operating system installed in this virtual machine.
To install an OS, connect a source with OS installation files, such as a CD, thumb drive, or disk image, and reset the virtual machine. For more information, see Parallels Desktop Help.

 

Please try the steps suggested at http://kb.parallels.com/112209 and check if it works.

 

No idea. This help article is telling me to connect to a CD DVD. I don't have a CD / DVD drive. My .PVM file contains a file called Windows 7-0.hdd which is 56.4Gb in size. Inside this there are a number of files (see attached):


Any ideas?

 

/Users/jason/Documents/Parallels/Windows 8.pvm/Windows 7-0.hdd:
total 110151728
-rw-------+ 1 jason staff 1726 Dec 19 17:57 DiskDescriptor.xml
-rw-------+ 1 jason staff 1726 Dec 19 12:35 DiskDescriptor.xml.Backup
-rw-------+ 1 jason staff 0 Dec 10 2014 Windows 7-0.hdd
-rw-------+ 1 jason staff 56397660160 May 17 2017 Windows 7-0.hdd.0.{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}.hds
-rw-------+ 1 jason staff 15488 May 10 2017 Windows 7-0.hdd.drh

 

Hi JasonV2 this may or may not help you, but with your external drives attached to your mac, if you open a finder window and search .pvm your mac should search your drives and give you the path to your missing vm.

 

I did that. I do not know which drive it was on. I was hoping the path may be present in a log file. I have found a valid .hdd file but the system say there is no OS on it. Interestingly the Windows 7-0.hdd is zero bytes but Windows 7-0.hdd.0{5baa etc is 56GB. I have tried swapping the file names but this did not help.

 

Hi.

"Windows 7-0.hdd is zero bytes" - it is ok, this file is always empty
real data stored in "Windows 7-0.hdd.0.{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}.hds" file.

Please
1. Send us technical data - follow http://kb.parallels.com/en/9058
2. attach DiskDescriptor.xml here

 

Hi JasonV2,
The first thing I would do is what Artem Klimkin has requested.
I found another knowledge base article for you to take a look at about missing OS http://kb.parallels.com/en/123150