using parallels new beta with Xp sp2. Not done much so far but it has worked well. i want to be able to use my working Windows (NTFS) drive on parallels to save arrying two laptops everywhere. I have experienced awful problems access ing the drive and had at least 4 blue screens. I copied a 120Mb project to the C: drive and was able to run an iShell multimedia project (which uses QucikTime 6.5.2) fine. same ting when it was on the usb drive blue screened. Also experienced many 'delayed wite failures' even when I was only trying to read from the disk. If this is how it is right now it looks as if I will not be able to use parallels and will not be able to recommend its use in my office.