corruption

When I try to boot the Mojave VM it just boots to the prohibitive symbol and then to the recovery partition. When I try to mount the hdd file inside the VM file, a volume mounts, but it just contains a folder named EFI with no user data inside. Is there any way I can repair the hdd file so...

Hello everyone! Last night I was working on a virtual machine when the power suddenly went out. After this unexpected shutdown, I can no longer start my Parallels virtual machine with the Windows 10 operating system. It contains important files for my work. When I launch Parallels, my virtual...

Upgrading Ubuntu Desktop from 23.04 to 23.10 results in the corruption of the boot disk and the attached screen appears. Does anyone know a solution to correct this ? I am running the latest version of Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition on a Sonoma M2 Air.

There has been a lengthy discussion about disk corruption that can present itself with Linux virtual machines when run on an Apple Silicon platform. Particularly when using a filesystem that is modern enough to recognize silent corruption (e.g. BTRFS). While I'm not 100% certain if this is a...

I followed Parallels' suggestion to reclaim 45GB of disk space and ended up with a corrupted Parallels Data File that cost me upwards of GBP 350 to have fixed. If I felt I had a chance of recouping that from Parallels, I would. In the meantime, I urge company to withdraw that faulty reclaim disk...

I have had zero issues through many versions of Parallels and since I wanted to update to Mojave, I purchased Parallels 14 update, installed it, the tools and then updated OS to Mojave. My windows 10 guest came up fine and was working until the first time it wanted to create a new snapshot. It...

TL; DR: I am trialling parallels and I went through a full weekend of resolving hard disk corruption and reinstalls of windows due to parallels not handling things very well. Despite this, I am not quite ready to abandon parallels, but would very much like to see some solutions to known...

Here's my circumstances... I'm using Parallels Desktop for Mac v12 on OS X El Capitan (10.11.6). I have been successfully running a Windows XP VM for years with zero problems. The MacBook Pro HDD dies. I replace the HDD and recover my OS X system using my most recent Time Machine backup All is...