Virtualbox, F14 and External USB disk

[Alain Roger]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Michael Miles <mmamiga6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alain Roger wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> my host is Windows 7 x64 and i have installed VirtualBox latest version.
>> in VirtualBox i have a guest F14 with latest updates.
>>
>> when i connect my external USB disk to PC, VirtualBox detects it and make
>> it available for guest (F14) as Mass storage.
>> However, under F14 i'm not able to find this disk.
>> 1. how can i check for sure that USB disk is available or not ?
>> 2. how should i mount it if it is not already mounted ?
>>
>> basically data on this USB disk should be recovered and transfered to new
>> PC (windows system).
>> Western Digital (WD) have their NAS bookWorld as ext.network/USB disk with
>> Linux partitions on it.
>>
>> thank a lot for help.
>>
>> --
>> Alain
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> Windows 7 x64 / Fedora 14 x64
>> PostgreSQL 8.3.5 / MySQL 5
>> Apache 2.2.16
>> PHP 5.3.1
>> C# 2005-2008
>>
> As far as I know you must have guest additions installed to use the shared
> folder between the two, host and guest
>
> Also on Fedora Oracle VM Virtualbox is the one with usb support.
>
>
> If you are using Windows as the host machine try VMware 6.5 or later and
> install Fedora under it
>


it seems you didn't understand.
i do not want to share files/folder between host and guest.
i want my usb disk available under F14 and access to its data but i can not
see this USB disk. So i'm asking how can i check where is the problem under
F14.
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