my mbp hard drive failed so got that replaced..now parellels wont work..any ideas

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kel2

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Mar 29, 2010

• #1

well all my data was transferred to my new hard drive but when i try to use parellels now it wont work..i have a lot of movies and music on it..any ideas whats wrong? when i click it it doesnt even come onto the dock..nothing happens..appreciate any help

 

maflynn

macrumors Broadwell

• Mar 29, 2010

• #2

What won't work - parallels or the guest OS?

Did you have a backup? because if your hard drive failed, its very possible that you lost some data, which may include your guest OS and/or Parallels. Did you try to reinstall parallels?

 

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newdeal

macrumors 68030

• Mar 29, 2010

• #3

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was the transfer done with a time machine backup? If it was often it is set to not backup your virtual machine meaning your backup would not restore all that data

 

fehhkk

macrumors 6502a

• Mar 29, 2010

• #4

Look for a .pvm file, which is the actual virtual machine file. Move it somewhere, and re-install parallels.

 

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man02195

macrumors 6502

• Mar 29, 2010

• #5

kel2 said:

well all my data was transferred to my new hard drive but when i try to use parellels now it wont work..i have a lot of movies and music on it..any ideas whats wrong? when i click it it doesnt even come onto the dock..nothing happens..appreciate any help

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i used carbon copy and winclone to get data off my hard drive. Not sure how you got windows partition data backed up and restored.