I opened parallels with the intention of deleting the virtual machine but not the expanding disk and I accidentally left the check mark during the wizard. How do I get it back? please help me
. If you don't have any backup, then you really are in a bad situation. Data recovery software, such as rstudio, would be your only other option. .
While there are data recovery apps out there for just about every major OS, your chances of recovering a large file are very slim. When a file is deleted, only a reference to it is actually removed. The file data still resides on its disk sectors. The problem here is that the OS has now marked that space as free, so any subsequent disk activity can result in part of the file's data being overwritten. And there's always disk activity, even if you're not actively doing something. With small files, the probability of this happing right away is somewhat low. With huge files like a VM I'd figure that there's a high probability of some of the file's sectors being overwritten. Bear in mind that sectors are typically on the order of a few kB in size, so a multi-GB file will be stored in a LOT of them. Even one overwritten sector would prevent recovery. Like Constant said, if you don't have a backup available, you're probably back to square one.
