Parallels For Mac Change Drive Letter

23-05-2021 admin

Migration Assistant and Parallels Question: Have a Mac Air and I purchased a Mac Pro. Needed more power and a bigger drive for Parallels. I was instructed that before I used migration assistant to move my data from Mac Air to Mac Pro that I needed to download parallels first and divide the drive. CentOS (like all Linux distros) doesn't have 'drive letters' - that is a throwback to the toy operating systems that were installed on some computers in the 1990's and early this century. I believe they went by the name 'Windows'. Instead it uses mount points.

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Symptoms

I am sharing external Mac drives with a Windows 7 guest operating system (Virtual machine) and it seems like Parallels Desktop automatically assigns shared drive letters beginning from the end of the alphabet, in the order that they are connected.

How do I reassign the drive letters I see in Windows 7 for those drives?

Cause

Drive letter assignment is managed by Windows and does not depend on Parallels Desktop.

Resolution

To reassign drive letters for shared Mac drives please follow the steps below:

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Make sure the external drive is properly connected to the Mac and mounted in Finder.
Start Windows, go to Start ► Computer and make sure external drive is successfully mapped (usually with letter X:, Y: or Z:)
Click on 'Map network drive' button.
In the new 'Map network drive' window choose the Drive letter you want from the list
Then in Folder: field type in psf and choose the drive you need from the drop-down list (psfKINGSTON in the example below)
Make sure 'Reconnect at logon' checkbox is checked. Save changes.
Now in Windows Explorer you will be able to see 2 identical drives with different drive letters assigned.
Right-click on the drive with the 'wrong' letter (Y: in the example) and choose Disconnect
Now the shared drive letter will be saved for this device even after Windows is rebooted.