Re: Parallels/Windows2000->app install problem
- From: "Daniel L. Snyder " <snyds_remove-this_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:25:06 -0500
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<a4ef629d-d09a-4aee-acea-78b67812bb24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Richard.D.Bailey@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jun 11, 9:08 pm, "Daniel L. Snyder " <snyds remove-
th...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am using Parallels and Windows 2000 on my MacBook Pro. I am trying toCould be windows or os x/parallels
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.
Thoughts?
Thanks for the help.
OS X will sometimes mount the USB drive and not release it to
parallels, although this was more common with parallels 2.0 in my
experience. If that is the case just unmount it in OS X and it should
appear in your vm.
When I have the flash drive checked on the virtual macine usb icon, the
flash drive icon disappears from the Mac. So it seems that the flash
drive is accessable, or "seen" by Parallels.
Sometimes windows will assign a drive letter to the USB drive that is
already in use. In windows click start > settings > control panel.
In control panel go into administrative tools and launch computer
management. In computer management click on disk management, find
your USB drive in the list and right click on it and choose change
drive letter and assign it a drive letter that is not in use.
My route does not seem quite the same. I do not find disk management
directly by going to Computer Management. At computer management I find
System Tools, Storage, and Services and Applications. I found Disk
Management as a folder under Storage. Clicking Disk Management only
showed the (C:) on the list (with Volume, Layout, Type, File System,
Status and the like. Down below that list there was something about
Drive 0 and CDRom 0. No lists anywhere, at least not showing the USB
drive.
Hopefully it's one of those two things. If neither works, see if the
usb drive mounts on the OS X side without parallels running.
The Flash Disk shows up on the desktop and the Finder as "No Name"
without parallels running. When Parallels is running, the Flash Drive
shows up on the Mac until I clidk the Flash Drive on the Parallels USB
icon, then it disappears from the Mac.
.
Cheers
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