In the parallels menu bar go to Devices USB USB2.0 Mass Storage (or whatever your drive is called. The drive should unmount from mac OS and show up in windows. NTFS is supposed to be faster and more reliable, i figured i needed every bit of good karma for running windows in Boot Camp, for gaming.
Hello,
If you boot from the Boot Camp Windows partition and the following
error message appears: 'More than one Windows partitions are found. This
is not a standard Boot Camp configuration', please follow the steps in
the article:
http://kb.parallels.com/entry/28/472/
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Parallels Customer Service
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I had tried that previously and it was not a permanent fix .... meaning that it would revert back after I rebooted the machine. That was with an older version of Parallels. I have not tried this fix after I installed 3.0. Maybe it will work... we shall see! Let me know if it works for you.
- Parallels HDS Recovery Software is a fully authenticate utility which is well suitable to recover files from Parallels virtual machine disks having NTFS & FAT file systems. It is compatible with all variants of major file systems i.e. FAT, FAT16, FAT32, FAT64, NTFS, HFS+, and EXTX. Retrieve Data If VM Failed to Start.
- NTFS is a file system that can be read and written only by Windows operation system. On a Mac side it will be only for reading. You will not be able to copy or create any files on it. If you would like your external device be fully detected by both operation systems please use Paragon software.
- In Mac OS X, open Finder, go to Applications folder Utilities folder, and double-click Terminal.; Paste the command below into Terminal as is (do not hit Enter yet): prldisktool check -hdd.
- Parallels Desktop can also access a Boot Camp partition as a secondary drive with read and write access to FAT32 and NTFS file systems.
Feb 9, 2008 9:53 PM
prl_disk_tool
The prl_disk_tool utility is used to manage disk drives of your virtual machines. This utility has the following syntax:
prl_disk_tool <COMMAND> [OPTIONS] --hdd <disk_path>
Resizing Virtual Disks
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When resizing virtual disks, the utility has the following syntax:
prl_disk_tool resize --size <size>[M|G] [--resize_partition] --hdd <disk_path> [--force] [--split]
prl_disk_tool resize -i,--info [--units <K|M|G>] --hdd <disk_path>
| Changes the capacity of the virtual disk. The disk to be resized must be formatted as NTFS, FAT 16, FAT 32, ext2, or ext3. |
| New size of the virtual disk. It can be set either in megabytes (specify |
| Resizes the last partition of the specified virtual disk. |
| Full path to the virtual disk to be configured. |
| Forces the resizing operation for suspended virtual disks. |
| Splits the virtual hard disk into 2 GB files. |
| Do not resize the virtual disk; just show the size the disk will have after resizing. |
| Displays the disk size in kilobytes ( |
Compacting Virtual Disks
When compacting virtual disks, the utility has the following syntax:
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prl_disk_tool compact [--buildmap] --hdd <disk_path> [--force]
prl_disk_tool compact -i,--info --hdd <disk_path>
| Removes all empty blocks from the expanding virtual disk and reduces its size on your physical disk. The disk to be compacted must be formatted as NTFS, FAT 16, FAT 32, ext2, or ext3. You can also try to compact virtual disks with other filesystems using the |
| Full path to the virtual disk to be configured. |
| Compacts virtual disks with unsupported filesystems. |
| Forces the compacting operation for suspended virtual disks. |
| Do not compact the virtual disk; just display the information about the size the disk will have after compacting. |
Preparing Virtual Disks for Booting
The prl_disk_tool utility can also be used to prepare virtual disks and real Boot Camp partitions for booting into virtual machines. In this case, the utility has the following syntax:
prl_disk_tool configure --hdd <disk_path> [--para <paravirt_driver>] [--boot <boot_driver>]
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| Prepares a disk or a real Boot Camp partition for booting into a virtual machine. |
| Full path to the virtual disk to be configured. |
| Specifies the full path to the Parallels virtualization driver. |
| Specifies the full path to the Parallels boot driver. |
Converting Virtual Disks
You can use the prl_disk_tool utility to change the type of a virtual machine disk from expanding to plain and vice versa. In this case, the utility has the following syntax:
prl_disk_tool convert --hdd <disk_path> [--plain|expanding] [--split|--merge]
prl_disk_tool convert -i,--info --hdd <disk_path>
| Converts the virtual disk from the expanding format to plain and vice versa. |
| Full path to the virtual disk to convert. |
| Do not convert the virtual disk; just show the size the disk will have after resizing. |
| Converts the disk to the plain format. A plain virtual hard disk has a fixed size. |
| Converts the disk to the expanding format. An expanding virtual hard disk is small initially. Its size grows as you add applications and data to it. |
| Splits the virtual hard disk into 2 GB files. |
| Merges all parts of the split disk into one file. |
Displaying Utility Help
To display the utility help, use this command:
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prl_disk_tool --help