recovery

Hello, I just updated to Parallels 19.4, and upon booting my Windows 11 VM it is requesting a BitLocker Recovery Key. I don't recall ever even turning BitLocker on, and I was only using a local account since it was a VM. I've tried turning off Secure Boot (vm.efi.secureboot=0 in Boot Flags...

Parallels on macOS silicon is very flakey and so far, poorly implemented for macOS Guest OS. For example, there is no CONFIGURATION, SNAPSHOT, CLONE options working which severely limits the product. In such an environment, HOW DO I START A macOS MONTEREY VM in Recovery Mode. Clearly I cannot...

My MacBook Pro (running Big Sur) unexpectedly shut down this morning while my Mac OS Mojave virtual machine was active in Parallels. Now when I try to start up the Mojave virtual machine, the Apple icon appears and the progress bar completes, but then the system just stops... nothing else...

This is a bit involved, but here is the best attempt at a summary. I was working with a network simulator on an Ubuntu 16.04 Parallels instance. I accidentally affected permissions on the root folder. After this occured I was unable to do anything on the machine, even "cd" or "ls". I attempted...

Hello we've got an issue where Windows updates is suddenly breaking our Windows installs. We have about 20 x 27-Inch iMac Retina 5K, Mid-2017 machines with Fusion Drives. All Running 10.12.6, Latest Parallels installed regularly. I created a BOOTCAMP partiton and made a build of the Windows OS...

Hi, While running Reclaim Disk Space, my computer turned off leading to a corrupt VM state. Now it won't boot anymore. I've already read/tried a multitude of things, to no avail: Running repair from the installation disk Creating a new VM and adding the initial .hdd as a secondary drive Adding...

Hallo zusammen, Ich habe ein iMac mit Parallels 13 desktop. Vorgeschichte , bzw was ich schon getan habe. Eines Tages konnte ich meine Maschine nicht mehr starten ( operating system not found) keine ahnung was passiert ist . Ich kann die maschine nicht Mounten um auf meine Daten zu kommen . Im...

Parallels was installed on an iMac. 30GB Windows 8 file. Tests show that there are damaged sectors on the hard drive. I was unable to copy the file after using DiskWarrior (which found the Parallels file, and offered a preview version for copying). I can only get 18 GB of transfer done...

Windows 10/Parallels suddenly froze my computer. When I restarted Windows started updating and froze. I restarted again, and now I get an error from Windows saying that the system is missing or contains errors and asks me to use recovery tools (where do I get those and how do I run them?) Error...