I am running Parallels 1922 RC2 for Mac, with Win XP Home SP2. I receive a Stop message when formatting a San Disk Cruzer Titanium USB Drive. DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000008, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xF7B01509) usbuhci.sys - Address F7B01509 base at F7AFE000. Datestamp 41107d62 Easily replicated for me. Not sure how to get to the core dump for additional information. Parallels restarts the VM.
Forgot to add: Machine data - MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz, 2 GB RAM Allocated 1 GB of Memory, 4GB of storage USB Controller - Autoconnect On
USB support still has problems. Format in OSX. If you really NEED NTFS, format on a PC, but FAT32 is a better choice for small drives.
Alternative reply You're mad for even trying. The USB port is on a different machine to the Parallels guest OS. The guest OS runs in a virtual machine. All the hardware is emulated although the Parallels app makes a good job of hiding this from you. Formatting a USB stick (formatting any disk) is something you want to have done reliably. Do it in a native operating system.
Thanks. Also need to know the limits of the virtualization. I ultimately completed the task on a native operating system...I was also trying to troubleshoot the USB device. OS X reliably mounted the device. However, the device was producing inconsistent mounts on a native windows machine.