How to see a USB drive in a VM?

[aussieboykie]

Newbie. Please be gentle.

I have enabled USB 2.0 support and plugged in an external USB drive. It gets disconnected from the host and VM --> Removable Devices --> USB Devices shows a check mark against "Myson Century Removable Disk (Port 1)". Unfortunately, the USB disk does not show up in File Explorer. What am I doing wrong?

Regards, AB

Workstation Build 42757

Guest OS is W2K Pro with SP4 and all MS fixes to Feb 2007.

[RParker]

I'd say it was a bug. That's the way it should work.

W2K pro... that could be part of the problem.. why not upgrade the guest to WinXP?

[KevinG]

What does Windows 2000 device manager report as the USB controller type?

[aussieboykie]

Good question KevinG. Intel82371 AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller is listed under USB Controllers but there is another entry under Other Devices for Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller with a ?/! indicating that it is not recognised and/or working properly. I'll try uninstalling and rebooting to see what happens.

Regards, AB

[aussieboykie]

Bingo!

Uninstalling the unknown device and rebooting the VM did the trick. Thanks for the pointer.

Regards, AB