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Use external drives in both Parallels and Mac OS
Authored by: wink on Mon, Mar 17 2008 at 2:09PM PDT

That's news to me! I've been using a Lacie external with both Leopard and XP in Parallels simultaneously for quite some time. Never had an issue... The drive stays on and accessible to both OSes without any operator intervention. While the /Volumes method should also work, you can just map a drive in XP and it'll always be there.

I did the drive mapping just to make backup easier, though you could use a UNC path as well. Time Machine won't backup the BootCamp partition, so I've got a PC backup program that handles it. However both backups go to the same external drive.

Works great!

wink