No matter what state your Parallels VM is in, back it up right NOW.
Shut down Parallels if it's running and copy the entire content of Documents/Parallels (this is the typical location of your Parallels virtual machine files, if not find them by searching for .pvs files) off to an external drive. Leave it alone. You might need to use it a few times if you mess things up.
The .pvs files you find are actually directory objects that contain the files for your virtual machine. If you want to see what's inside, right-click and select "Show Package Contents". You'll find your snapshot data there (some of it at least) as well as the virtual hard drive image (.hdd file). You can "Show Package Contents" of the .hdd file as well. There you'll find more files, the disk drive configuration file and more. I'll get to what's what in a moment.
Well, did you back it up yet? Yea, copying 50, 100, 200 GB files is no fun, just do it. Go have a beer while you wait.
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