I have an iMac running OS 10.5.3. I run Parallels 3.0 Build 5608. On the guest OS I run Windows XP Pro version 2002, SP2. I have an external hard drive attached to an iMac USB port. I use it for backup and mass storage - it is not a bootable drive. It has two partitions, they both appear on my iMac desktop and I can readily access any files thereon - from my iMac. On the Parallels desktop menu (Devices/USB), I see HDD USB 2.0/1394A which I assume is the iMac external hard drive. However, I cannot see the external hard drive nor any of the files thereon anywhere in Windows. It's not on my Windows desktop nor does it appear on "My Computer". How do I access the external hard drive while in Windows? Thanks in advance John
Actually you can see it, in Disk Management but yo are not able to see as disk, because the most probably it is formatted as HPFS
I went to Disk Management in Windows and the only disk that appears is the NTFS iMac hard disk partition that is set up for my Windows "C:" drive. Nothing else appears. According to my iMac system profiler, the external hard drive has a HFS+ file system. So what does that mean? That I can't access files on the external hard drive while in Windows? If not, what would I need to do to make those files accessible on Windows? John
I tried that yesterday but I guess I didn't dig quite deep enough. Indeed I can see files in the external hard drive and even open them, although I have to double click on the file, they do not show up as available files to open when I try to open directly from their creating application, which is a Windows only application. At any rate, I got what I needed. Thank you. John
