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.
I tried to detect a problem by going all way back on Time Machine backup drive. After understanding the complete issue I found that the problem is not related with Time Machine. The problem was related with backing up a Parallels virtual machine data (using which Windows is running within Mac) which was badly corrupted. And I was unable to find an advanced way for parallels .pvm file corrupt recovery from such type of severe issues.
And after searching for so many hours, finally I got perfect solution for the recovery of corrupt QuickBooks data i.e. Parallels HDD Recovery Software. The software is designed in a way that it can easily perform parallel .pvm file corrupt recovery from broken and crashed virtual disk images. Instant recovery of corrupted GPT (GUID Partition Table) or MBR (Master Boot Record table) partition table can be easily implemented by utilizing this tool.
But the tool is expensive. It doesn’t make sense for individuals to purchase such type of tools when it’s needed only for once in a lifetime. But for a business like us, we have to deal with this and data recovery is a profitable business. So I purchased this tool and recover data from corrupted parallel machines. Now the customer is happy as she got all the desired data.
Note: Don’t trust your backups and especially don’t trust time machine backups of Parallels. And if backup is necessary for you, then setup a Windows backup service for the Parallels virtual machine that can run your QuickBooks. Also test your backups once in a while. Another issue that can occur while using a single disk for backups is, what happens if the backup disk fail? Make use of redundant array and mirrored drives which are the most cost-effective solutions.
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