I am currenty running parallels version 3036 After having some problems with getting paralles to boot from my bootcamp partition i found that that the issue was as a result for the version I am running not supporting FAT32 partition. So I converted from FAT32 to ntfs. Parallels now sees the drive but will not boot from it. on looking at the drive seems that i only have permissions to read and not write. I do not wanna have to format the drive and do the whole installation again as i have just got i setup how i like it. Any Idea's can i take ownership of the drive in OS X or do anything inside bootcamp to resolve the issue. I have had a look but can't find anything for taking ownership of the drive.
From within OSX you can only read an NTFS partition, but that won't stop Parallels from booting it. Read is all that's necessary until the NTFS file system drivers are loaded. Native Windows doesn't write to disk until filesystem drivers are loaded anyway. So whatever problem you are having isn't due to being unable to write from OSX. If you can boot directly into bootcamp, and do not have Parallels tools installed, the latest Parallels should be able to boot from that partition. I haven't tried it since I have no desire to use a bootcamp partition as a VM HD.
