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hei1221
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‎04-14-2014 11:22 PM

USB 3.0 Flash Drive cannot be recognized by Win 7 under Fusion 6.0.2

I bought a SanDisk Extreme 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive yesterday for my MBA 2013. It's working normally when I plug it and select "Connect to Mac", but the Win 7 cannot recognize it if I select "Connect to Windows". It seems the Win 7 cannot find the USB controller driver for my new USB. Please help.

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WoodyZ
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‎04-15-2014 07:17 AM

Windows 7 does not natively support USB 3.0 and as such you can try two things.  Set the USB Controller to USB 2.0 in the Virtual Machine's Settings and if that doesn't allow it to connect then you need to buffer the connection using a USB 2.0 Hub connected to the Host and the device plugged into the Hub.  (I know, neither sounds palatable when one wants to us it as a USB 3.0 device! Smiley Sad)

The other option is the setup the USB Drive as a VMware Shared Folder or an OS X Share and access it that way.

BTW Windows 8 natively supports USB 3.0.

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