Parallels Problem

[Sharezjek]

Last night I installed Parralels 5 on my Mac Pro.
It all went well, but for some strang reason it didn't recognise
my DVD drive.
I thought no more of it then.

But when I Boot Camped into Windows I noticed that my hard drive letters had
been changed and I could no longer open the DVD tray unless I went into
Control Panel and ejected it. I now have to gently push it to close.

Has anyone else had this problem?
And if so, any idea how to fix it?

 

[spinnerlys]

Have you set up your Parallels VM to use your Boot Camp partition as Windows?

How did you try to mount your optical drive, via the following menu item?

What Mac Pro and what Mac OS X version do you have?



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[Sharezjek]

Yes, Parallels is using my Boot Camp partition.

Ummm I didn't mount the optical drive, could that be the problem?
And would that effect my Windows partition when I boot camp into it?

Sorry forgot to say that I have an early 2009 Octo Pro running Snow Leopard.

 

[nigameash]

Well 1st off, this is software related so wrong section

Did you install the parallel tools on the virtual machine to enable it to recognize all drives? Its in the virtual machine options i think, it installs the drivers which make the virtual machine function properly, that could be the problem

 

[spinnerlys]

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Ummm I didn't mount the optical drive, could that be the problem?

Yes, as neither Windows nor Mac OS X can access the optical drive at the same time, thus the MOUNT option in the menu.
It will mount the media in the optical drive while it un-mounts the optical drive in Mac OS X.

And would that effect my Windows partition when I boot camp into it?

I don't know, as you didn't tell us what you did to try to mount the optical drive, you might have damaged something in the process.
More information is needed to properly assess your problem.



Tools can be installed via

Also have a look at the help section of Parallels as it describes some procedures as to do what in case when.

 

[Sharezjek]

Well 1st off, this is software related so wrong section

Did you install the parallel tools on the virtual machine to enable it to recognize all drives? Its in the virtual machine options i think, it installs the drivers which make the virtual machine function properly, that could be the problem

Yes the tools were installed but I didn't touched the settings as I assumed that was all done automatically, silly me

 

[Sharezjek]

Yes, as neither Windows nor Mac OS X can access the optical drive at the same time, thus the MOUNT option in the menu.
It will mount the media in the optical drive while it un-mounts the optical drive in Mac OS X.



I don't know, as you didn't tell us what you did to try to mount the optical drive, you might have damaged something in the process.
More information is needed to properly assess your problem.



Tools can be installed via

Also have a look at the help section of Parallels as it describes some procedures as to do what in case when.

Ok thanks for the help.
I'll try mounting the drive when I get home from work.

Would that also be why my drive letters were reassigned?