Hello, on my system (Mac OS 10.6.9) Parallels Desktop 8 is running Windows 7 from its own Bootcamp partition. When I start Parallels, the Bootcamp harddrive symbol disappears from the Mac OS desktop and the Finder windows. But I want permanent access to the Bootcamp partition while running Parallels because I want to copy files between Bootcamp and Mac OS to edit them directly in Windows. It's annoying to shut down Windows and Parallels every time I want to copy a file to the Bootcamp partition. Does anyone knows a way how I can keep access to Bootcamp? Thank you, Tom
The most sane way to do that is using shared folders, but there are other sharing options in the configuration of the VM including the one you are refering, of having full access to drive, but which I do not reccomend, because from the description you seem to be using a 3rd party NTFS driver to write to the Bootcamp partition in OS X, and that will conflict with the same ability while running Parallels. The reason why the bootcamp drive is unmount is beucause, obviously Parallels needs full access to it.
@Specimen: Thank you! Now I use a shared folder, that's enough; total access to the Bootcamp partition is not necessary. I follow your recommendation to avoid this because of conflicts with the Paragon NTFS-driver I use.
