Parallels cost me Macdrive

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Stacey M

I just realised I'd be more likely to get support here, so I'm reposting it here.

After trying out Parallels trial as suggested by a friend as being better than VMware, I found it incredibly slow, unwieldy, bloated and to add insult to injury, very poor at handling bootcamp. After following all the correct uninstall procedures, it has still decided to mock me by permanently leaving MacDrive unable to access my Mac partition when booted natively in BootCamp. What driver did Parallels leave that is plaguing my system? Why can't I even find a list of drivers your software decided it didn't need to remove with the standard uninstall? MacDrive cost me money, and short of reinstalling Windows, your free trial has now ruined my paid for software.

 

You got rid of Parallels tools, right?

 

First, you did it yourself and not parallels.

What system your running?
Did you indead unistall parallels tools in windows?
How much ram ?
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Windows, 1gig ram, yes I uninstalled the tools in Windows. Yes, I did it to myself in that I installed Parallels, or perhaps my parents did it, by having me, or their parents. Maybe it was evolution resulting in our species, or Parallels using a system to block access to the drive left behind a driver in the tools that continues to do so, as described by MacDrive support (though they say it plays fine with a version just previous to what I used of Parallels).

Can anyone from Parallels tell me what it installed to block the access, and how to remove it?

 

How did you remove parallels?
Do you still have .dmg file off parallels? Try to install parallels again and then to remove it with the uninstaller off parallels.

Or maybe just try the unistaller in dmg file.

 

When you removed parallels tools from bootcamp, there no any drivers from parallels should remain in your system.

Try to reinstall macdrive.

 

Yes I tried reinstalling MacDrive, tried an older version, tried the v7 trial. I tried reinstalling Parallels on mac, then Parallels tools so I could just remove parallels tools, then remove parallels from my mac. Another thing, it leaves a lot of Coherence crap on my mac despite using the official uninstaller in the DMG, such as in my right click open with options list. Why is this not being removed? It boggles the mind really.

 

The applications listed in the open with list are part of the VM itself (and can easily be gotten rid of by deleting the "Windows Applications" folder in the VM folder) so the Parallels uninstaller does not delete them.

 

Cheers, thats one problem out of the way