Re: Parallels/Windows2000->app install problem
- From: "Daniel L. Snyder " <snyds_remove-this_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:12:28 -0500
In article <sehix-C76349.21133611062008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Hix <sehix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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?
I checked information on the Mac side, and file format for the flash
drive said MS-DOS (Fat 16). Again, I know so little about Windows -
would a Fat 16 format flash drive not work with a Fat 32 format for the
Windows virtual machine?
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.
That might be worth a try. I am still a bit unclear how shared folders,
etc. on the Mac side work with Parallels/Windows. To use this
application, I will need to both install it AND have the application
access the authorization which resides on the flash drive. Should that
work on the basis of being a shared folder?
.
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