Re: Parallels/Windows2000->app install problem

In article
<snyds_remove-this_-2B8C87.21081811062008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Daniel L. Snyder " <snyds_remove-this_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I am using Parallels and Windows 2000 on my MacBook Pro.

Me, too. Well, with an MBP.

I am trying to
install an application to run on Windows from a USB flash disk. When I
put the flash disk into the USB slot, Parallels has a dialogue box
telling me that it has detected the new USB device Flash Disk, and asks
if I want it to be automatically connecte3d to the virtual machine
Microsoft Windows 2000. I click on Yes and confirm that the Flash Disk
is checked on the USB icon. But I cannot find the Flash Disk under My
Computer or Windows Explorer.

Perhaps this is more of a Windows problem, but since I am pretty
clueless in such things, I am asking for help in what I have to do
either with Parallels and/or Windows 2000 so I can install (and use the
USB key) for my new application. I thought that USB devices such as the
Flash Disk would be plug-and-play. But that may be part of my Windows
cluelessness.

I am about to have a new bald spot from scratchig my head on this one.

What volume format does the flash drive use? Is it FAT32, or maybe a Mac
format, which it might not want to acknowledge?

Thoughts?

Copy the application installer into a shared directory on the Mac side,
and then grab it from the Win2K side?

Which is what I'd do, since I haven't found Win2K to be perfectly
comfortable with thumbdrives.
.

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