Hi Everyone: I am using Parallels 8 with Windows 7 Home Premium on my IMac. I can not fathom out how while in virtual machine "Windows Side" to have my External harddrive recognised. It is only recognised on the Mac side. Prior to this it used to recognise it on both sides, but I had a problem where I had to uninstall Paralles 8 & Windows 7, and do complete reinstall of both software. But since I did the reinstall I can not remember how I had configured the sharing properties. I am new to Parallels for just around 4 weeks. Any help please. John R McNally. United Kingdom.