Trouble restoring from backup

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by MattBaker, Dec 8, 2007.

  1. MattBaker

    MattBaker Junior Member

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    Hi. I'd appreciate your advice on a problem I'm having restoring a backed up VM.

    This is Tiger, XP Home Edition, MacBook, build 5160.

    I backed up my entire hard drive, then reformatted my main drive and reinstalled Tiger. I thought I could restore by doing two things:
    1) copy my /applications/Parallels fold back to /applications
    2) copy my VMs back to /users/MattBaker/documents/Parallels/

    When I try to run a restored VM, I get a message that
    "Virtual machine cannot be started because of the following problem. File /Volumes/Untitled 1/Users/MattBaker/Documents/Parallels/VMname/winxp.hdd seems to be not a regular file and cannot be used as a hard disk image."

    Both of my restored VMs give me the same message. What am I doing wrong?

    Thank you!
     

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