Well, I’m sorry to say this but I had my second “blue screen of death” on my iMac over the weekend, and it took out my Parallels Desktop 3 install.

I don’t know what happened but I opened Parallels and clicked on the green arrow to start the virtual machine as normal, then the crash happened.

After restarting the machine, Parallels was totally screwed. An error message about the disk image being corrupt came up each time I tried to run it. I searched on the internet to see if I could recover it, and after ages of trying, I couldn’t.

I’m a bit reluctant to re-install my XP virtual machine now because that has made me lose faith in the Parallels program. What if it happens again? I only actually used Parallels to run one program - an accounts package that only runs on Windows, so it’s not the end of the world. I still have my laptop pc.

Luckily, I kept a backup of the accounts so I only lost a couple of days worth of records, which took me 15 minutes to add back in. I now have it up and running on my laptop.

Is boot-camp any good? Has anyone else had problems with Parallels Desktop 3?

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