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Parallels Desktop and USB Pen Drives
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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I'm wondering about people's successes and failures using different USB Pen drives with Parallels Desktop. There were two reasons why I gave up on VPC, after buying and trying to use versions 5 and 6. The main one was that my USB Pen drives often did not work with it. The other was that USB printer drivers were very unpredictable.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Read up here in this forum-it looks like Parallels only handles USB 1.1. But even so, it should read any USB flash memory device just fine-it may take longer to transfer data, but that's really no big deal unless you're using some enormously large "pen drive." (I call 'em "thumb drives" because they're typically the size of my thumb-or even smaller.)
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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In my experience, USB support in Parallels is still flaky. I have several flash drives that will mount in OS X but Windows won't see them, even though Parallels shows them as connected. They all work fine on a PC or when booting natively into Windows.
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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That's bad. With so many USB devices on the market, they're shooting themselves in the foot by not providing better support.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
That's bad. With so many USB devices on the market, they're shooting themselves in the foot by not providing better support.
Absolutely! It would seem to me that one of the main uses of any program like Parallels or VPC would be to take Mac files and prepare them for Windows use. Programs like Office do not produce identical documents on both platforms, so you often have to "touch up" the doc after preparing it on the Mac (or vice versa). And the easiest way to move a file over is with a USB pen drive. Similarly, it is crucial that USB printing within the emulated Windows environment be absolutely identical to a "real" PC for the same reason.
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I haven't had any problems moving files via USB flash drive on Parallels. Ain't gonna win any speed races, but it works.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Originally Posted by Cadaver
I haven't had any problems moving files via USB flash drive on Parallels. Ain't gonna win any speed races, but it works.
Could you describe how you go about connecting the drive? What operation do you do in the parallels screen/window to open the drive. or is it automagically detected by windows.
My parallels/windows 2000 installation doesn't detect my thumb usb drives - even those that are seen in Tiger.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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I recently installed the Parallels beta update and the overall performance boost is pretty amazing, even with 256 MB allocated. As a bonus, my flash drives are fine now, and even my SimpleTech microdrive is now recognized, although it takes a couple of minutes to appear in My Computer.
Still no USB 2.0 or multi-processor support, but maybe that will appear in the final update. VMWare is gonna have to come up with something really earth-shattering to beat Parallels. Or else give it away for free just to kill the competition.
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