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NTFS-formatted Windows XP installed via Bootcamp 1.3
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 426529" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Mac OS will recognize and mount it automatically, it just won't be able to write to it. In fact, to write to it, you'd have to move the file over to your Windows desktop and then use Windows to open the drive and write the file.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In order to get Parallels to attach a USB device to the Windows session, you have to go to the Actions menu, select the device from the USB menu and then click it. That is, unless you keep the drive connected all the time. In that case, you would simply add the drive to the VM configuration before you fire up Windows and then it would be automatically mounted every time you start your VM session.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, as long as Windows is running in Parallels and Parallels Tools is installed (a suite of Windows drivers that are installed after Windows is installed), drag and drop between Windows and OS X works pretty seamlessly.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because FAT32 is universally readable and writeable, regardless of whether Parallels is running or not. Also, FAT32 is not limited to 32GB (Windows imposes an artificial 32GB limit, MacOS can format FAT32 to much larger sizes - although I don't know the cap off the top of my head). FAT32 does still have a 4GB single file size cap though. Oh, and you're right, NTFS is more secure by virtue of it's file and folder-level permissions.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Exactly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 426529, member: 24098"] Mac OS will recognize and mount it automatically, it just won't be able to write to it. In fact, to write to it, you'd have to move the file over to your Windows desktop and then use Windows to open the drive and write the file. In order to get Parallels to attach a USB device to the Windows session, you have to go to the Actions menu, select the device from the USB menu and then click it. That is, unless you keep the drive connected all the time. In that case, you would simply add the drive to the VM configuration before you fire up Windows and then it would be automatically mounted every time you start your VM session. Yes, as long as Windows is running in Parallels and Parallels Tools is installed (a suite of Windows drivers that are installed after Windows is installed), drag and drop between Windows and OS X works pretty seamlessly. Because FAT32 is universally readable and writeable, regardless of whether Parallels is running or not. Also, FAT32 is not limited to 32GB (Windows imposes an artificial 32GB limit, MacOS can format FAT32 to much larger sizes - although I don't know the cap off the top of my head). FAT32 does still have a 4GB single file size cap though. Oh, and you're right, NTFS is more secure by virtue of it's file and folder-level permissions. Exactly. [/QUOTE]
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