Repairing the Corrupt VDI File of VirtualBox Using Checkdisk

A virtual drive file, the VDI file is a file that is used by the virtual machine VirtualBox of Oracle, which is a desktop virtualization solution that is an open-source program. One can mount it as a hard disk on different platforms like Windows, Unix and Mac. Using it, one can easily run programs that are written for various OSs in a speedy virtual setting.

VDI File Corruption – A Practical Scenario

A computer user recently faced this tricky situation where his problem emerged a few days ago when several windows simultaneously started opening up haphazardly in the Windows 7 OS version. With any proper knowledge of fixing such issues and to avoid such an unsought behavior of the system, he immediately turned off his machine forcibly (by clicking and holding the power off button till the system turns off). The actual problem according to him was that, he had a VirtualBox VM that was running together at that time and what was worse than this was that, his VM started downloading a particular file. As per him, the major reason behind this unexpected explosion of several windows, opening altogether, was that, the partition holding the virtual drive VDI image might have encountered one bad sector. 

How to recover files from corrupt Parallels .pvm files

Yesterday, a customer came to us describing the issue regarding corrupted QuickBooks data. After discussing the whole thing with her, I came to know that Mac is having a Parallels Virtual Machine on which Windows is running.

Actually, before coming to us, customer showed her Mac in Apple Store. They installed a new hard drive in it and tried to restore data from time machine backup. Later they found, the problem was with Parallels Virtual Machine, it was totally corrupted. As you know that Apple Store doesn’t deal with products that Apple does not support. Then she came to us because we can deal with any kind of operating system, no matter whether it is Mac or Windows.