I am running Maple in a windows virtual machine, on a mac computer.

I have a number of worksheets on its disk

Windows advised me to run its error checking utility (chkdsk)

when I try and open them it gives me a number of options:

maple text

plain text 

and maple input

None of these are the same as the original files. What has happened? and how can i fix it?

 I have a system of 4 rational equations involving 6 variables. I want to solve this system for 4 variables. 

Whenver I try to do this I get either an error message about solutions being lost, or maple being unable to allocate enough memory.

The Commands involved are here: