Seeing remote USB hard drives

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john417

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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
 
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
 
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