Can't migrate from old Windows PC

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by RalphH, May 22, 2009.

  1. RalphH

    RalphH Bit poster

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    I'm basically a Mac person and need help setting up the source PC to connect via my home network so that I can see the entire C: drive instead of only the SharedDocs folder. In the source PC, if I select "view network connections," I see 2 folders named "SharedDocs" and "My Documents." How do I go about making the entire C: drive available to the network so that I can see it in my Macs network window? I used the Network Setup wizard to create the network and saw no way to make the entire C drive available so that I could migrate all of my files to the new VM on the Mac.

    I'm using Parallels 4.0 (with Win XP installed) and my Mac is a MacBook Pro running OS 10.5.5 Leopard. The source PC is running Windows XP Pro. The network is a hard wired ethernet network using a D-Link router. Two Macs on the network can see each other with no problem.

    Can any PC savvy users help out, please?
     
  2. estrelnikov

    estrelnikov Parallels Team

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    If your Windows machine is in the same network then you could share C: drive in the following way -- right-click C: drive -> Properties -> Sharing tab -> "Just enable file sharing" option -> check "Share this folder on the network" box -> specify desired share name -> if you want to allow changing the contents of this folder over the network check "Allow network users to change my files" -> click OK
     

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