Apple 640 manual Managing PC files from the Mac OS

mTo change the drive container for drive C or D, choose Other Drive File from the C: or D: pop-up menu, then locate the new drive container in the dialog box that appears.

The change takes effect the next time you restart the PC environment. To have the change take place immediately, click the Restart PC button at the bottom of the control panel.

mTo use a PC drive or partition, choose Drive Partition from the C: or D: pop-up menu.

A dialog box appears with a list of available partitions.

If you use a PC drive or partition and you have a utility that mounts these devices on the Macintosh, unmount the drive or partition before starting the PC by dragging its icon to the Trash.

WARNING If you don’t unmount the drive or partition, you may lose data because both the Macintosh and the PC environments may write to the device at the same time.

If you intend to mount your PC drive container, partition, or disk on the Macintosh using Macintosh PC Exchange, do not use a PC compression program. Drives that are compressed cannot be mounted.

Managing PC files from the Mac OS

You can gain access to files in a drive container even if you’re in the Mac OS. Follow these steps:

1Double-click the drive container in the Finder.

The drive container appears as a disk icon on the Mac OS desktop.

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