iMac has no disk drive

I recently traded up my MacBook, which had a CD drive, to an iMac, which doesn't. Parallels is running perfectly fine, but whenever it starts it gives me this message:

"Unable to connect CD/DVD 1. A file or device required for the operation of CD/DVD 1 does not exist or is used by another process, or you have no permission to access it. The virtual machine will continue running, but the device will be disconnected."

How can I stop this message from appearing?

 

Hi SDS Brooklyn

From the menu on the bottom right .
select the DVD this will open a menu where you can select Disconnect.



This should take care of your problem.
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Can't quite find DVD

Thank you for advice, which sounds like it should work. However, I don't quite know what to look for. At the bottom edge of the Parallels window there's a typical Windows blue bar with "Start" on the left and some teeny (and I do mean teeeeeny) icons at the far right, just before the time of day. The icons include a printer status, Windows security center, "HP Digital Imaging Monitor," a speaker icon, one called "Control Center 4 Mode," "Adobe Version Cue CS2," and an inexplicable icon that when I click it expands into the log of a message I once had with Quicken several years ago. But nothing looking like a CD or DVD device. Even more mysterious to me, some but not all of these icons also appear at the very top of my iMac screen in the ribbon that contains the Airport, the system speaker, the Time Machine, Dropbox, etc. But also no DVD to disconnect.

Can I maybe find it in the Windows Control Panel?

 

The menu at the bottom right of the Virtual Machine window, not of Windows itself, if you are in Full Screen mode switch to window mode.