Virtualbox, F14 and External USB disk
Richard Shaw
hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 15:22:31 UTC 2010
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Alain Roger <raf.news at gmail.com> 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.
I believe your disk can only be available to one system at a time. If
you have it mounted under your guest then it is not available to the
host. Unmount it in Virtualbox and it should show back up on the host.
Richard
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