Cannot recover after VM crashed, OS X Leopard
Posted: 13. May 2012, 15:48
Host OS Mac OSX 10.5.4 (Leopard)
I was able to create a VM using Virtualbox. I wanted to install Windows 8 Consumer Review.
When I ran the VM for the first time I received a pop up informing me that the mouse had not been captured by the VM. The pop up instructed me to click in the VM window to capture the mouse. As I was doing this the Windows 8 installation started. I sat back to let Windows install. The system seemed to have hung. I waited a while, but there was no response, no changes. The screen was the one that you use to select language for Windows.
I tried to move the mouse pointer around to see if it had been captured while waiting, but it did not move.
After awhile, I tried to shut down the VM, it would not respond. I tried using the left command key to switch from the VM to the host, no response. I waited a bit longer, then held down the power button to perform a hard reboot.
After rebooting the user account that I was using to create the VM and install Windows would not load Finder and some applications and files were no longer available. Also, (the host) system was slow. I switched users to see if all accounts were affected, they were not.
Time machine would not load the file and I could not load an image file that was created. I reinstalled Mac OSX with the option to save user files and applications. I can not access this folder even when signed in as an administrator, the folder shows 0kb of data.
I deleted the VM and tied to use Mini Tool (a file recovery program) to repair/recover files. This did not work.
Any suggestions on how to get my files and applications back? One other thing, I tried to reinstall Aperture but get an error that the serial # is invalid. It is the one that came with aperture.
I was able to create a VM using Virtualbox. I wanted to install Windows 8 Consumer Review.
When I ran the VM for the first time I received a pop up informing me that the mouse had not been captured by the VM. The pop up instructed me to click in the VM window to capture the mouse. As I was doing this the Windows 8 installation started. I sat back to let Windows install. The system seemed to have hung. I waited a while, but there was no response, no changes. The screen was the one that you use to select language for Windows.
I tried to move the mouse pointer around to see if it had been captured while waiting, but it did not move.
After awhile, I tried to shut down the VM, it would not respond. I tried using the left command key to switch from the VM to the host, no response. I waited a bit longer, then held down the power button to perform a hard reboot.
After rebooting the user account that I was using to create the VM and install Windows would not load Finder and some applications and files were no longer available. Also, (the host) system was slow. I switched users to see if all accounts were affected, they were not.
Time machine would not load the file and I could not load an image file that was created. I reinstalled Mac OSX with the option to save user files and applications. I can not access this folder even when signed in as an administrator, the folder shows 0kb of data.
I deleted the VM and tied to use Mini Tool (a file recovery program) to repair/recover files. This did not work.
Any suggestions on how to get my files and applications back? One other thing, I tried to reinstall Aperture but get an error that the serial # is invalid. It is the one that came with aperture.