Re: Parallels/Windows2000->app install problem
- From: Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:27:48 +0200
Daniel L. Snyder wrote:
I am using Parallels and Windows 2000 on my MacBook Pro. 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.
If the USB stick is Mac formatted - HFS, HFS+, HFS+(journalized), windows will not recognize it, unless you have fx. MacDrive98 or MacDrive2000 installed into your win2000. - while a mac can read and write to a PC formatted stick without problem...
Drag the icon of the stick to your Mac bootdisk and everything will be copied onto the HD as a folder.
Open DiskUtility and mark the stick and select the 'Erase' pane. In the popup menu to the right, select "DOS - FAT32", give it a name, - click 'Erase' + OK to the warning dialog. the stick is now formatted in FAT32 and you can copy the content of the stick folder back to the stick, and now it should be recognized by Win2000.
cheers, Erik Richard
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