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Hi, does anyone know about any program that can read/recover virtual hard drive files. The machine died on me but I have the .HDD and .HDS virtual disk images used for Parallels.

Does anyone know how i can extract or restore these files on windows since the machine is down.

I have the HD mounted, with Paragon hfs+ driver however it wont copy over the files, keeps timing out.

There is a program called BitRecover Parallels HDD recovery software that can read it, if anyone has seen the full version I can extract the files that way.

Otherwise is there a way of mounting files or converting them in windows?

Thanks@

http://www.bitrecover.com/parallels-hdd-recovery/

Well nevermind, got it!

Turns out VirtualBox can read Parallels disk drive files just fine, all one needs to do is rename the largest .HDS file to .HDD and attach to the same IDE/SATA port as you it set before, then it should boot right up.

Phew. Just thought I'd update this incase anyone else runs into this problem.

Just a helpful hint to anyone new to VMs - Use VMDK file format when creating virtual disks. It's the most widely common-file-format used among VM software providers (example: vmware and virtualbox both have their own proprietary file formats, so a vbox VM wont work with VMWare by default, and vice-versa), and is accessible by every VM software I've ever used (home, business or corporate systems all get along with VMDK!)