Hi, I recently bought my first mac, I have couple of engineering softwares which works with windows only thus I decided to first install BootCamp so that I can get all the RAM in windows while using those software. Later I decided to install Parallel Desktop (build 4128) and it worked perfectly fine, until I plugged in an 250 GB external drive and formatted it into MAC OS Journaled and FAT32 partitions using disk utility. Now if I switch on Parallel it gives me following error: "More that one Windows partitions are found. This is not a standard Boot Camp configuration. Please refer to the Parallel Desktop for Mac Users Guide, Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation chapter for instruction on how to configure Parallel Virtual machine in case of a non-standard Boot camp configuration on your Mac." I am not able to interpret what I should do for getting this thing working. Can anyone help me in making this work. Thanks and Regard
Quick, temporary solution is unplug the drive before you start up Parallels. I think this is a bug that will hopefully get sorted in an update. Salamat
I did unplugged the hard disk and then started Parallels and when windows XP booted up properly I again plugged the hard disk in ... it ask if it should connect the device automatically to virtual machine "My Boot Camp" :- 1. If I say No - then I can see both Mac anf XP partitions on MAC OS but cannot see XP partition in windows. 2. If I say Yes - Error - USB device you are trying to connect to the virtual machine is being used by another program. And the USB device unmounts automatically.
I don't know for sure but with your option (1) could it be a formatting issue, ie formatted in a Mac system, rather that FAT 32? With option (2) I think it's an issue that has to be addressed in an update Salamat
i have seen this problem First of all i would upgrade to the latest version off the website. i saw the problem with "another device is using this disk" when plugging in a usb disk in eairler versions it seems to be sorted out now though. Second the original error has nothing to do with a bad partition, is an annoying aspect of paralles i have never bothered to get working. my work around as mentioned above is to unplug the external drive to get it booted. Third i think what you are trying to do see the windows partition and mac partition natively in their respective platforms. this is not possible on a single usb disk. it must either be routed to the guest os (xp) or to the host os (osx). you can share folders through the file sharing feature of parallels or simply use the parallels software to connect to the guest os when you want to see it there and disconnect when you want to see it in the host os (this is what i do) lastly unless you absolutly need to write to the windows partition on the external drive from osx why not use ntfs it is soooo much better than fat 32 especially if you value your files.
