Cannot log in to Windows 8.1 Pro virtual machine!

Hello.
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my iMac (Mid 2011) via Boot Camp, then I installed Parallels Desktop 8 and my Windows virtual machine was recognised by PD8. Then I upgraded my Windows version to Windows 8 Pro and added Windows Media Centre. All that was also recognised by PD8. Then I upgraded to Parallels Desktop 9, and everything was going fine.
I recently upgraded my Windows 8 Pro with Media Centre to Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Centre from the Windows partition, and I had no problem with that either. But when I tried to log in to Windows through Parallels Desktop (Windows as a virtual machine), Parallels Desktop didn't recognise the Windows virtual machine!
How can I resolve this issue?!
Thanks.

Hi,
Did we followed this article to update to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8?
Update to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8
For can't find the update in the store, have you checked this article?
Why can't I find the update in the Store?
Please take a check in the question You might be running an edition of Windows 8 that doesn’t support updating from the Store
in the above article for the editions that won't be able to update from Windows store.
Best regards
Michael Shao
TechNet Community Support

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