V38010 & USB stick

Hi, Folks:

I recently installed V 38010 of Parallels-4 onto my system:

Macbook Pro Early 2008, 4 gig memory, 200 mbyte HD, OS/X 10.5.6; "Update" was installed over earlier update of Parallels 4.

When I run Windows XP (OEM version purchased around April, 2008) from boot camp, I am able to recognize a USB drive formatted as FAT-32. the "My Computer" screen shows it as drive F. When I run this version of Windows XP within a virtual machine built by Parallels-4, Windows does not seem to recognize the same USB drive. When I launch the virtual machine, launch Windows XP from it, and insert the USB drive, I'm shown a dialog box that allows me to connect the USB drive to either OS/X or XP. If I choose XP, I do not see a new drive show up in the "My Computer" panel, nor am I able to access the USB stick. If, instead, I connect the USB drive to OS/X, I can access the USB stick as network drive "X" and transfer information between it and an XP application. However, one XP app that I'm running - Bernina's Art Design-1 program - attempts to recognize only a USB drive and refuses to write to a network drive.

I'm not definitely certain that this error was introduced with the 38010 update, but I am certain that it exists in that version. Any ideas on how to access the USB drive from XP would be appreciated.

 

Could you please provide Disk Utility screenshot, when USB disk is selected

 

"Picture 1.jpg" is the diskutil display when the USB drive is connected to Windows XP"

/Users/jank/Desktop/Picture 1.jpg

"Picture 2.jpg" & "Picture 3.jpg" are the diskutil displays when the USB drive is connected to OS/X 10.5.6. Parallels is still running XP.

/Users/jank/Desktop/Picture 2.jpg

/Users/jank/Desktop/Picture 3.jpg

Thanks for looking at the problem.

-- Jerry

 

I cannot see any pictures, please attach them to your post

 

Hopefully the pix are attached:

"Picture 1.jpg" is the diskutil display when the USB drive is connected to the virtual space running Windows XP"

/Users/jank/Desktop/Picture 1.jpg

"Picture 2.jpg" & "Picture 3.jpg" are the diskutil displays when the USB drive is connected to OS/X 10.5.6. Parallels is still running XP.

/Users/jank/Desktop/Picture 2.jpg

/Users/jank/Desktop/Picture 3.jpg

Thanks for looking at the problem.

 

I had to delete the USB controller in Device Manager, remove the USB option in the VM config, then add back; USB then worked as intended and new devices were detected by Windows (until suspend/resume). See http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=22027