external drive

Hi all, I'm using a Mac Mini M4 Pro and Parallels Desktop 20 (Pro Edition). I'm experiencing a peculiar problem with my Windows 11 VM on my Mac. Normally, when the VM is running and I connect an external USB disc drive, my Mac correctly detects it and prompts me to choose whether to connect it...

I have an M4 Pro MacBook Pro & an M2 Max Mac Studio, and I would like to be able to run the same Windows 11 VM on either machine, depending on if I am at home or somewhere else. I think this comes down to one of three solutions, but if you have other suggestions I would like to hear about them...

Hello, I am new to Parallels as I have a new Apple Silicon Mac (MacBook M3 Pro) and I need to run some Applications on Windows. Wanting to free up some space on my internal drive, I moved my Windows11 installation from my internal drive to an external SSD drive following this instruction. This...

Hi, I am considering to buy a Mac Mini M4 with 256GB SSD. I also plan to move all the files from my Windows desktop PC to the virtual machine. Will it work will if I install Parallels and the Windows 11 virtual machine on the external SSD?

The ability to boot from my external SSD broke after upgrading from version 19 to 20. I just get a blank screen. To be clear, that is, a Windows 10 installation that resides on the external hard drive that is actually also dual-bootable on my Intel Mac, not a .pvm file on the hard drive. The...

I need help configuring my system. I currently use a 2018 Mac Mini with 500GB SSD running Parallels. I am running out of storage space. I would like to use the Mac Mini SSD for the operating system (including Windows) and all software, and an external enclosure for all my data and backups etc...

Hello everyone, I just got my MacBook Pro (18GB, 1TB, M3 Pro, 16") today and I just installed Parallels in order to be able to play some games in the evening. However, I want to install some big games like GTA V, RDR2 and more so I'm wondering: Is it possible to use an external SSD with, say...

Hey! I have some questions I have difficulty finding on the internet. Context I have an external SSD (2TB) My Virtual machine installed on this drive Question Why "C://Program Files" still use my internal hard drive? Is it possible to change this, install all apps and games, and store files...

Hi @ all :) i have the problem, after I started Parallels my external HD's are gone. I got the (MAC) Message, that the drives are not disconnected correctly. Is the a solution out there ? Best Regards, WolleW

Since the last update I continue to get the 'Disk Not Ejected Properly - Eject External SSD before disconnecting or turning it off'' when I switch between MacOS and my Windows VM desktop screens. It does not affect the functionality pf the VM but I get a massively long list of identical...

Hi, I have a new Win 11 VM running on an external ssd and want to install some apps I have also stored on the SSD. Is it even possible as my MacBook Pro needs to see the drive to run the VM and Parallels doesn't seem to let both the VM and the host see the drive at the same time. I can copy the...

Does anyone have any tips for running Parallels Desktop on External Drive? I am a Mac M1 Max user and would like a small Windows Parallels set up, but would prefer this to be on an External drive as I wouldn't be using it every day. I have heard that this is now a thing, and that its possible...

Hello, I am new to Parallels so please excuse any wrong terminology. I have an old (2015) MacBook Pro that still has MacOS but I just started running Mint Linux within Parallels on it. My music collection is stored on a 1TB external drive on XFAT format (because I read that that is...

Similar to the way I believe a Boot Camp partition can be used by Parallels, can I set up an external bootable Windows drive so that it both can be run as a Parallels VM, but also remains bootable on a Windows machine, retaining all changes to the Windows environment made while running as a VM...

Hello, I just got Parallels Desktop 18 to try it. I am trying to run Windows 11 and any apps installed in windows from a fast external ssd drive. I did figure out how to run Windows eleven from the SSD drive, but Parallels Desktop 18 keeps installing all the apps I install in windows on my...

Hi, I would like to clone my PC Windows 10 SSD and migrate it to an External M.2 NVMe SSD which will be used on a 2022 Macbook Air M2 with Parallels Desktop. Is this possible, and Is there a step by step guide to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.

Hi, With Parallels 17.1.2 and macOS Monterey, I can no longer run Windows from external hard drive. I get message that "Operating system not found". With Windows PC, booting from the same hard drives works perfect. Full Access is enabled for Parallels. How to troubleshoot the issue?

Thank you for any help. I am new with Parallels. I have a trash can Mac running Mojave I want to keep. I installed Parallels 17 and wanted to have BigSur in an external drive. First it says it must create a disk image which I allowed. However when I reach the installation it indicates my...

I have files on an existing HFS+ formatted USB3 Passport drive. I can Connect the guest (Windows 10) to that drive but it doesn't recognise it, presumably because Windows doesn't recognise HFS+ What is the best way to solve this?

I have a dual boot MacBook Pro one boots from the onboard SSD and the other from an external SSD. The external SSD boots into a machine that I use for development while the onboard SSD boots into my machine I do other work on. Is there any way to run by external SSD native Mac from inside...