Sharing Harddrives with Windows XP - crashes Windows Explorer

Intro:
I was using Windows XP for a very long time. I have now switched to mac. Spare the mac harddrives, the other storage harddrives I was using are pretty filled up with stuff I accumulated while using Windows, they are NTFS.

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I am running Leopard, to my surprise found out MAC couldn't write to NTFS. No big, installing WinXp guest via Parallels was still part of the original plan.

After installing Parallels (3.0 5582) I started sharing drives, mapped them in the VM settings. This includes ".mac home" and 2 other NTFS hard drives.

In Windows when browsing the NTFS harddrives explorer crashes.

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I read another thread here about fixing this, the thread that seems abandoned. The solution presented there was to install MacFuse to let OSX be able to read NTFS partitions.

(before doing this I had installed Parallels Tools. Pretty much every solution for anything going wrong with anything involves re-installing parallels tools, from what I've noticed.)

I was in the process of doing that, I had to get XCODE for FINK, build FINK, install MacFuse and then get the NTFS-3g driver. (i forget the relation of all of these programs, but it works). I can now read and write to my many NTFS drives in OSX.

ALTHOUGH, in the guest Windows XP OS, explorer STILL crashes. WHY? Anyway, from the abandoned thread I read, I couldn't tell if the suggestion was that windows was supposed to behave automatically after installing MacFuse or if there was supposed to be an all new installation.


Please help.

 

Try following:
1. Install the latest version of MacFuse from http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
2. Disconnect all attached network drives from My Computer, right click disconnect
3. Delete Parallels Shared folder link from desktop, and from c:\program files\Parallels\Parallels Tools
4. Stop VM, and delete volume from shared folders, restart VM, and enable shared folders back.
5. If you have antivirus, try to disable heuristic prediction (Symantec)