Flash Drive

I just got a MacBook and am running Parallels in order to run some statistical software. My USB drive (which works on every PC I've ever used as well as the Mac side of my new computer) only works sometimes. It always shows up as "removable disk (e)" on the PC side and lets me click in the lower right corner to safely eject the drive, but usually when I try to double click "removable disk (e)" I'm told to "insert a disk into drive (e)." Every once in awhile it actually works like it should, but often there's nothing I can do and am just not able to read the drive on the PC side. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it.

Would love to hear what people think!!

 

Attach disk when VM is started, I guess you will have no problem

 

I've tried inserting it before, during, and after starting the VM. I've tried ejecting and reinserting, etc. It works sometimes and not others, but seems completely random.

 

Suggestion, create ISo images for both CDs and install

 

I'm not sure what this means - can you elaborate?

 

You have 2 CDs, create ISO image from them and use ISO
to create ISo
1. Insert CD/DVD source

2. Start Terminal from Applicatins/Utilities, you can then determine the device that is you CD/DVD drive using the following command:

$ drutil status
Vendor Product Rev
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-835E GAND

Type: DVD-ROM Name: /dev/disk1
Cur Write: 8x DVD Sessions: 1
Max Write: 8x DVD Tracks: 1
Overwritable: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB
Space Free: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB
Space Used: 364:08:27 blocks: 1638627 / 3.36GB / 3.13GiB
Writability:
Book Type: DVD-ROM

3. Umount the disk with the following command:

$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Disk /dev/disk1 unmounted

4. Create the ISO file with the dd utility (may take some time):

$ dd if=/dev/disk1 of=file.iso bs=2048

5. Test the ISO image by mounting the new file (or open with Finder):

$ hdid file.iso