WD External Hardrive

gelbers · Aug 30, 2007

I have a question about using a external hd. It is a USB device. It appears under the devices, usb, but it does not appear in windows. Is it supposed to appear under my computer like it normally would in windows?? Please advise.

Ynot · Aug 30, 2007

Do you have any network shares connected inside your Windows VM?

gelbers · Aug 30, 2007

not that i am aware of.
i have a parallels shared folder

sandro · Aug 30, 2007

i suppose solution is around Disk manager that we already discussed

http://forum.parallels.com/thread15791.html

so, connect your USB disk go to disk manager and if you see it there map it to some letter drive

Ynot · Aug 30, 2007

Ah, may be i misunderstood something. Can you tell me, do you have this device connected to VM? If the device connected it has the mark near it in Devices->USB menu.

If you not see this mart, you should click on it in the Devices->USB menu to connect device to virtual machine.

gelbers · Aug 30, 2007

Sandro: It did not appear in the disk manager on windows.

Ynot: When I click on devices and pull down usb it says external hard drive. what else do i need to do

biglar · Aug 30, 2007

Make sure the hard drive is checked. Click on it and a check mark beside it should mount the hard drive.

gelbers · Aug 30, 2007

where should there be a checkmark??

sandro · Aug 31, 2007

on the right side of device menu item you must see a checkbox that need to be checked

junketer · Aug 31, 2007

i am having the same problem!!! my external FreeAgent HD doesn't show up in windows explorer & it definitely is checked on the Devices-USB menu. Also my MP3 player shows up as being checked when connected for transferring music, BUT do you think my software can detect it? NOPE!!! Why not? Help please someone?