Parallels Desktop for Mac

[maveric32]

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Stacey M

Hello,
I'm new here and to Mac. I have the Parallels and Windows XP installed. So much I don't understand. I'm trying to follow the book but things in the program don't seem to be doing what the book states. I have a USB hard drive that I would like to transfer files to and from. The hard drive was formatted a while back with NTFS as it has always been used with a PC laptop. When I connect the drive to the Mac, it shows the icon on the Mac desktop. It always shows as read only. I cannot seem to see this drive in the Windows pane, only on the Mac desktop. This seems harder than I thought it would be. Please help and advise.

Greg

[tacit_one]

Hello,
I'm new here and to Mac. I have the Parallels and Windows XP installed. So much I don't understand. I'm trying to follow the book but things in the program don't seem to be doing what the book states. I have a USB hard drive that I would like to transfer files to and from. The hard drive was formatted a while back with NTFS as it has always been used with a PC laptop. When I connect the drive to the Mac, it shows the icon on the Mac desktop. It always shows as read only. I cannot seem to see this drive in the Windows pane, only on the Mac desktop. This seems harder than I thought it would be. Please help and advise.
Greg

The answer is simple you're connecting your HDD to the Mac wich doesn't know how to write to the NTFS. What you need to do is to connect this HDD to the guest Windows within Parallels.
To do that just plug your HDD when virtual machine is running (if usb autoconnect is switched on) you will see your drive inside Windows and will be able to read and write your files.