oceanfeline Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 Hello; I am using utorrent for mac and it seems to be working fine so far except for one problem. When I log-in to Windows XP on my virtual machine I see that utorrent has taken a network drive (x). I have specific software that needs to use the x network drive and need to know why utorrent has seized that drive on my virtual machine and if it is necessary if I can change it to Z or some other letter. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 uTorrent for Mac and Windows are separate clients... "take" X: ? How do you mean.. you configure paths under Ctrl-P > Directories. Or am I misunderstanding. You change paths usually through My Computer, but can also affect local drives via start > run > compmgmt.msc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceanfeline Posted December 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 I installed utorrent under mac only and so was surprised when I started Windows xp and couldn't access the program that I need to use thru windows because the program connects to a network drive and that network drive has to be "X". I pulled up "map network drive" and saw that utorrent had taken the X drive for it's own use and so I now can't use the program that I need to use under windows. Hope this helps explain things. I did no manual configuring with utorrent, it assigned itself to the x drive under windows xp all on it's own. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 I'm sorry I've never used Parallels... how is it a program can "take" a drive letter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceanfeline Posted December 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 Good question! Utorrent definitely changed a setting for some reason in the virtual machine that runs windows xp and I don't know how to change it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 OK, well let's see, in VMWare Fusion, my choice to use XP, there are preferences which allow setting "shared folders". Close by is the setup for CD/DVD audio, network drives. If you Command-, to open parallels preferences are there settings like these which may show you X: ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oceanfeline Posted December 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 O.K I think I fixed it. I restored windows xp to the day before I installed utorrent on the mac software and that seems to have done the trick. Thanks for the responses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Hmm, system restore, indeed. I didn't immediately think of it, shame on me. So what is using X: in your XP right now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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