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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / June 2008Parallels/Windows2000->app install problem
I am using Parallels and Windows 2000 on my MacBook Pro. I am trying to install an application to run on Windows from a USB flash disk. When I put the flash disk into the USB slot, Parallels has a dialogue box telling me that it has detected the new USB device Flash Disk, and asks if I want it to be automatically connecte3d to the virtual machine Microsoft Windows 2000. I click on Yes and confirm that the Flash Disk is checked on the USB icon. But I cannot find the Flash Disk under My Computer or Windows Explorer. Perhaps this is more of a Windows problem, but since I am pretty clueless in such things, I am asking for help in what I have to do either with Parallels and/or Windows 2000 so I can install (and use the USB key) for my new application. I thought that USB devices such as the Flash Disk would be plug-and-play. But that may be part of my Windows cluelessness. I am about to have a new bald spot from scratchig my head on this one. Thoughts? Thanks for the help. On Jun 11, 9:08 pm, "Daniel L. Snyder " <snyds_remove- th...@tcq.NOSPAM.net> wrote: > I am using Parallels and Windows 2000 on my MacBook Pro. I am trying to > install an application to run on Windows from a USB flash disk. When I [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Thanks for the help. Could be windows or os x/parallels OS X will sometimes mount the USB drive and not release it to parallels, although this was more common with parallels 2.0 in my experience. If that is the case just unmount it in OS X and it should appear in your vm. Sometimes windows will assign a drive letter to the USB drive that is already in use. In windows click start > settings > control panel. In control panel go into administrative tools and launch computer management. In computer management click on disk management, find your USB drive in the list and right click on it and choose change drive letter and assign it a drive letter that is not in use. Hopefully it's one of those two things. If neither works, see if the usb drive mounts on the OS X side without parallels running. Cheers In article <a4ef629d-d09a-4aee-acea-78b67812bb24@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, > On Jun 11, 9:08 pm, "Daniel L. Snyder " <snyds remove- > th...@tcq.NOSPAM.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > experience. If that is the case just unmount it in OS X and it should > appear in your vm. When I have the flash drive checked on the virtual macine usb icon, the flash drive icon disappears from the Mac. So it seems that the flash drive is accessable, or "seen" by Parallels. > Sometimes windows will assign a drive letter to the USB drive that is > already in use. In windows click start > settings > control panel. > In control panel go into administrative tools and launch computer > management. In computer management click on disk management, find > your USB drive in the list and right click on it and choose change > drive letter and assign it a drive letter that is not in use. My route does not seem quite the same. I do not find disk management directly by going to Computer Management. At computer management I find System Tools, Storage, and Services and Applications. I found Disk Management as a folder under Storage. Clicking Disk Management only showed the (C:) on the list (with Volume, Layout, Type, File System, Status and the like. Down below that list there was something about Drive 0 and CDRom 0. No lists anywhere, at least not showing the USB drive. > Hopefully it's one of those two things. If neither works, see if the > usb drive mounts on the OS X side without parallels running. The Flash Disk shows up on the desktop and the Finder as "No Name" without parallels running. When Parallels is running, the Flash Drive shows up on the Mac until I clidk the Flash Drive on the Parallels USB icon, then it disappears from the Mac. > Cheers In article <snyds_remove-this_-2B8C87.21081811062008@cnews.newsguy.com>, "Daniel L. Snyder " <snyds_remove-this_@tcq.NOSPAM.net> wrote: > I am using Parallels and Windows 2000 on my MacBook Pro. Me, too. Well, with an MBP. > I am trying to > install an application to run on Windows from a USB flash disk. When I [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > I am about to have a new bald spot from scratchig my head on this one. What volume format does the flash drive use? Is it FAT32, or maybe a Mac format, which it might not want to acknowledge? > Thoughts? Copy the application installer into a shared directory on the Mac side, and then grab it from the Win2K side? Which is what I'd do, since I haven't found Win2K to be perfectly comfortable with thumbdrives. > In article > <snyds_remove-this_-2B8C87.21081811062008@cnews.newsguy.com>, [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > What volume format does the flash drive use? Is it FAT32, or maybe a Mac > format, which it might not want to acknowledge? I checked information on the Mac side, and file format for the flash drive said MS-DOS (Fat 16). Again, I know so little about Windows - would a Fat 16 format flash drive not work with a Fat 32 format for the Windows virtual machine? > > > Thoughts? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Which is what I'd do, since I haven't found Win2K to be perfectly > comfortable with thumbdrives. That might be worth a try. I am still a bit unclear how shared folders, etc. on the Mac side work with Parallels/Windows. To use this application, I will need to both install it AND have the application access the authorization which resides on the flash drive. Should that work on the basis of being a shared folder? > I am using Parallels and Windows 2000 on my MacBook Pro. I am trying to > install an application to run on Windows from a USB flash disk. When I [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Flash Disk would be plug-and-play. But that may be part of my Windows > cluelessness. If the USB stick is Mac formatted - HFS, HFS+, HFS+(journalized), windows will not recognize it, unless you have fx. MacDrive98 or MacDrive2000 installed into your win2000. - while a mac can read and write to a PC formatted stick without problem... Drag the icon of the stick to your Mac bootdisk and everything will be copied onto the HD as a folder. Open DiskUtility and mark the stick and select the 'Erase' pane. In the popup menu to the right, select "DOS - FAT32", give it a name, - click 'Erase' + OK to the warning dialog. the stick is now formatted in FAT32 and you can copy the content of the stick folder back to the stick, and now it should be recognized by Win2000. cheers, Erik Richard  Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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