Keeping external drive designations

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by RLDumfries, Dec 19, 2014.

  1. RLDumfries

    RLDumfries Member

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    Environment: iMac 21.5 with Yosemite, Parallels desktop 9

    I have three external drives: One for data, one for Time Machine backups and one for mirror backup. Every time I reboot my iMac and load windows (paralells transparency mode), my drives get re-named. I always have to go into each of my windows programs and re-direct to the 'new' data drive. Sometimes it is W, sometimes U, and other times T.

    How can I stop this from occurring?

    Thanks
     
  2. Ram@Parallels

    Ram@Parallels Parallels Support

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    Hi RLDumfries,
    To resolve this issue you need to map external drives as network drives, Please follow the steps suggested at http://kb.parallels.com/116127 to map the external drives as network drives and assign them with desired drive letters.
     
  3. RLDumfries

    RLDumfries Member

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    Thanks for the reply. I checked and I was already mapped to the drive (T). However, when I re-booted, the drive changed (U) and I am having to re-direct all of my windows software.
     

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