Hello, I have a BootCamp Windows XP working with parallels desktop, and created a 3rd Partition (Fat32) to share between mac/windows. The main purpose of this partition is to separate my data files from the windows partition, which is common practice. (did this throught Disk Utilities) In OSX the partition is ok and working, same if I boot in Windows. However, when using Parallels Desktop, the drive (partition) shows as unformatted. Nothing can be done at that point in windows with that drive letter, it's just dead. It also shows as Local Disk. I've tried to format this partition as NTFS in Windows Bootcamp, and it behaves the same, furthermore OSX sees it as FAT32 (go figure). Now in the list of partitions in Parallels Desktop, there is: 1. The Bootcamp partition, 2 an NTFS partition, 3 a double entry of the NTFS partition showing as Data Partition (whatever that means, probably that there is no os installed). Trying to Format the drive from the Virtual Windows machine gives an error. Pretty much this looks like faulty device drivers...or a conflict.. Thanks,
Fixed I found this post, and the procedure worked! http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=88709 Thanks, However, now I'd like tu not use BootCamp, so I created a proper Parallels desktop virtual machine, installed windows, and the smae problem is present: The 3rd NTFS partition is not showing. I know I could share it via OSX. Is there a way to get direct acces to it from the virtual Windows ? Here is the output from diskutil: #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *232.9 Gi disk0 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 100.4 Gi disk0s2 3: Microsoft Basic Data STORAGE 69.3 Gi disk0s3 4: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 62.7 Gi disk0s4 I'd like to use disk0s3, as I'll probably get rid of disk0s4 Thanks,
