USB flash drives not visible in WinXP

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by bama1303, Nov 21, 2012.

  1. bama1303

    bama1303 Bit poster

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    Hi all,

    since I'm not able to either find a solution to my problem nor to open a support request (although I have about 650 days of free email support left) here's my issue:

    I'm running Parallels Desktop v8 on a Mac OS 10.6.8 for about two month now. I'm not able to exactly tell since when, but for some reason I'm not able to see USB flash drives on my Windows XPSP3 Guest system.
    When I'm inserting USB flash drives I'm asked wether to use the drive in WinXP or in MacOS. When I choose WinXP the stick is active in the devices menu (checked) but doesn't show up as a removable device in the explorer.

    Hope to get some answers.

    tia, Martin
     

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