Shared partitions usage / availability between OSes

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by DaveP2, May 25, 2016.

  1. DaveP2

    DaveP2 Bit poster

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    I was testing out Fusion 8 recently, but it didn't work for me due to the way it handled shared partitions.

    My hard disk is partitioned as a dual boot system like so:
    • 100GB Windows 10
    • 100GB OSX
    • 250GB Data
    In Fusion, when I loaded up Windows 10, the Data partition would be unmounted - effectively resulting in me only being able to read/write to that drive from one OS at a time, which is completely useless.

    So I have some questions:
    • Will I be able to use the Data drive from both OSes at the same time, without limitations like Fusion 8?
    • Will I need to have any special configuration, or suffer any other limitations, to run my system as above?
    • Will Parallels reuse my existing Windows partition / configuration?
    Many thanks,
    Dave
     
  2. Sasti@Parallels

    Sasti@Parallels Parallels Support

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    Hello DaveP2,
    Your existing boot camp Windows can be used with Parallels Desktop. Refer to this article to know more about setting up a boot camp based Virtual Machine. Let us know if you have any issues and we will look into it.
     

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