Shared partitions usage / availability between OSes

[DaveP2]

I was testing out Fusion 8 recently, but it didn't work for me due to the way it handled shared partitions.

My hard disk is partitioned as a dual boot system like so:

• 100GB Windows 10
• 100GB OSX
• 250GB Data

In Fusion, when I loaded up Windows 10, the Data partition would be unmounted - effectively resulting in me only being able to read/write to that drive from one OS at a time, which is completely useless.

So I have some questions:

• Will I be able to use the Data drive from both OSes at the same time, without limitations like Fusion 8?
• Will I need to have any special configuration, or suffer any other limitations, to run my system as above?
• Will Parallels reuse my existing Windows partition / configuration?

Many thanks,
Dave

 

[Sasti@Parallels]

I was testing out Fusion 8 recently, but it didn't work for me due to the way it handled shared partitions.

My hard disk is partitioned as a dual boot system like so:

• 100GB Windows 10
• 100GB OSX
• 250GB Data

In Fusion, when I loaded up Windows 10, the Data partition would be unmounted - effectively resulting in me only being able to read/write to that drive from one OS at a time, which is completely useless.

So I have some questions:

• Will I be able to use the Data drive from both OSes at the same time, without limitations like Fusion 8?
• Will I need to have any special configuration, or suffer any other limitations, to run my system as above?
• Will Parallels reuse my existing Windows partition / configuration?

Many thanks,
Dave

Hello DaveP2,
Your existing boot camp Windows can be used with Parallels Desktop. Refer to this article to know more about setting up a boot camp based Virtual Machine. Let us know if you have any issues and we will look into it.