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After recent updates either windows or macOS Sequia 15, the windows menu bar does not respond. Also, I been trying to run windows 11 pro on an SSD with 1TB, and CPU 8, 64 GB (32 GB). Though when downloading or updating apps for 3D modeling and design, or when updating any other app, at some...

Hello, I had a Windows 11 virtual machine running on an SSD and my MacBook powered off when the battery ran out. Upon restarting Parallels and trying to boot the Windows VM it got a boot error saying "BAD SYSTEM CONFIG INFO". Is there any way this can be resolved? Thanks

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...

While waiting for Parallels to complete its monthly maintenance, I started Task Manager in Windows 11 to get an idea of what was going on. I noticed that the Windows disk defragmenter was running. Since my Mac just has SSDs attached to it, this seemed like a pretty bad idea. From Crucial, a well...

Hi at all, I have a MacBook Air with the new M1 CPU and an M2 SSD from Samsung with USB C connection. Is it possible to use Parallels on this USB-Device with a Windows 10 VM? Is it possible to use make this USB-Device into two partitions? one for Parallels and one used as normal USB Device...

PD 16.1 When attempting to connect SSD from Host -> Guest, PD report "device is busy/inuse" even though its not (time-machine partition is ejected prior to attempting to connect to VM). Host: BigSur 11.0.1 (public) or 11.1RC2 (beta). Guest: BigSur 11.0.1 (public) or 11.1RC2 (beta). Drive...

My old Imac failed to startup, SSD is dead . I still have my second SSD (works perfect ) with bootcamp (windows) . Now i have a brand new Imac and i want to attach that ssd with bootcamp (windows) which is is external connected . Is it possible to add in Parallels ? Please advice, thank you

I have a MacBook Pro and have installed Windows 10 on Bootcamp to an external drive. The drive is a USB 3.1 enclosure designed to house an NVMe drive (in my case a Samsung PM951 which has approx 1GB/s speeds) When booting natively into Bootcamp on this drive and running Crystaldisk I am getting...

I recently got a new mac mini and wanted to run Windows in Bootcamp, with same Windows running in Parallels - something I've been doing for a long time on my previous mac - with the one extra catch that now it's installed to an external SSD connected via the Thunderbolt 3 port. It was a...

Hi, I have a Macbook Pro 2014, and have an external USB3.0 SSD (Samsung Evo 860 500GB) which I would like to store and run VMs from, using Parallels Desktop 14 Pro from. I will not transfer the VM files from the external SSD to my Mac. The VM's will be stored on the external SSD, and will always...

Hi, I have a MacBook Pro 15" (Mid-2014) (Core i7, 16GB RAM & 512GB Internet SSD), running the latest version of MacOS Mojave - 10.14.2. I would like to run 3 simultaneous Virtual machines: 1x running Windows 10 1809 (including Microsoft Office 2019, Visio 2019 (and maybe Project 2019), and...

Hi, I have recently bought a 27" 5k iMac that has a couple of thunderbolt 3 ports. Since the fusion drive is like molasses when you are used to a MacBook Pro with a internal SSD I bought a 1TB external TB disk (https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB3ENVPRC10) and installed macOS high Sierra...

Hi how can I securely clean the free space for files deleted in the Windows 7 VM if I would like to use a program like Eraser? Do I run it in the Windows VM or natively on the Mac? Would I compress the virtual disk as part of this process? TIA!

Hey, I was running out of space on my Mac's internal drive so I decided to move my .pvm file to an external SSD. (Samsung T5 3.1) I followed the steps to move the file to the external drive from the parallel site. The VM is working fine running on the VM. Only issue I have is that I can't enter...

On a MacBookPro with the Apple SSD formatted for APFS. My Mint VM is configured with the hard disk box checked "Support Trim". Linux typically does not issue a TRIM after every delete, just runs a cron job once a week. Two questions: 1. Does the Parallels support under 13.3 and MacOS 10.13.3...

I am attempting to migrate an Hp PC running Windows 10 to Parallels 13 using my Mac pro running High Sierra. PC - Windows 10 Home Mac - MAC OS High Sierra 10.13.1 The PC disks look like this: Parallels will stop after configuring: And give me the BSOD: I can kill the VM and boot an...

I have a Macbook Pro 15" Retina and I am waiting an iMac 27 Retina. To share a single instance of a few virtual machines, I bought a Samsung T5 500GB (USB 3.1 external SSD) and before copying the machines there I wonder if I should format it with AFPS or HPFS. Both computers (will) have...