VirtualBox claims a USB drive, but hosted CentOS 7 cannot access it
How can I get CentOS 7 to open a USB hard drive from within VirtualBox running inside Windows 8.1? I have VirtualBox installed in Windows 8.1 and I am using it to launch and use CentOS 7 within VirtualBox.
When I insert the USB drive, VirtualBox is able to "claim" it when I click Devices > USB Devices > Device Name, so that a check mark gets added next to Device Name in VirtualBox, while also causing a system sound, and also causing Windows Explorer to stop seeing the usb drive, so that the USB drive disappears from Windows Explorer and is marked in VirtualBox as selected. I can reverse this by unchecking the USB drive in a similar manner. The following image illustrates what I am able to do:
The problem is that the CentOS 7 installation inside VirtualBox cannot seem to see the USB drive. The USB device itself is an Apricorn SATA Wire 3.0 connector to the hard drive from a dead PC that had CentOS 7 and Windows 7 installed in a dual boot fashion. I want to access the data from the CentOS partition of the old hard drive using the CentOS 7 running inside VirtualBox on the new PC.
Now that VirtualBox can see the USB device, how can I get CentOS 7 to see and manipulate the USB device?
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How can I get CentOS 7 to open a USB hard drive from within VirtualBox running inside Windows 8.1? I have VirtualBox installed in Windows 8.1 and I am using it to launch and use CentOS 7 within VirtualBox.
When I insert the USB drive, VirtualBox is able to "claim" it when I click Devices > USB Devices > Device Name, so that a check mark gets added next to Device Name in VirtualBox, while also causing a system sound, and also causing Windows Explorer to stop seeing the usb drive, so that the USB drive disappears from Windows Explorer and is marked in VirtualBox as selected. I can reverse this by unchecking the USB drive in a similar manner. The following image illustrates what I am able to do:
The problem is that the CentOS 7 installation inside VirtualBox cannot seem to see the USB drive. The USB device itself is an Apricorn SATA Wire 3.0 connector to the hard drive from a dead PC that had CentOS 7 and Windows 7 installed in a dual boot fashion. I want to access the data from the CentOS partition of the old hard drive using the CentOS 7 running inside VirtualBox on the new PC.
Now that VirtualBox can see the USB device, how can I get CentOS 7 to see and manipulate the USB device?
hard-drive usb windows-8.1 virtualbox centos
edited Mar 8 '17 at 16:59
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It should just show up, maybe you should try re-installing virtual box?
– TheKB
Jun 23 '15 at 19:07
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How can I get CentOS 7 to open a USB hard drive from within VirtualBox running inside Windows 8.1? I have VirtualBox installed in Windows 8.1 and I am using it to launch and use CentOS 7 within VirtualBox.
When I insert the USB drive, VirtualBox is able to "claim" it when I click Devices > USB Devices > Device Name, so that a check mark gets added next to Device Name in VirtualBox, while also causing a system sound, and also causing Windows Explorer to stop seeing the usb drive, so that the USB drive disappears from Windows Explorer and is marked in VirtualBox as selected. I can reverse this by unchecking the USB drive in a similar manner. The following image illustrates what I am able to do:
The problem is that the CentOS 7 installation inside VirtualBox cannot seem to see the USB drive. The USB device itself is an Apricorn SATA Wire 3.0 connector to the hard drive from a dead PC that had CentOS 7 and Windows 7 installed in a dual boot fashion. I want to access the data from the CentOS partition of the old hard drive using the CentOS 7 running inside VirtualBox on the new PC.
Now that VirtualBox can see the USB device, how can I get CentOS 7 to see and manipulate the USB device?
hard-drive usb windows-8.1 virtualbox centos
edited Mar 8 '17 at 16:59
Community♦
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asked Jun 23 '15 at 18:18
CodeMedCodeMed
214723
How can I get CentOS 7 to open a USB hard drive from within VirtualBox running inside Windows 8.1? I have VirtualBox installed in Windows 8.1 and I am using it to launch and use CentOS 7 within VirtualBox.
When I insert the USB drive, VirtualBox is able to "claim" it when I click Devices > USB Devices > Device Name, so that a check mark gets added next to Device Name in VirtualBox, while also causing a system sound, and also causing Windows Explorer to stop seeing the usb drive, so that the USB drive disappears from Windows Explorer and is marked in VirtualBox as selected. I can reverse this by unchecking the USB drive in a similar manner. The following image illustrates what I am able to do:
The problem is that the CentOS 7 installation inside VirtualBox cannot seem to see the USB drive. The USB device itself is an Apricorn SATA Wire 3.0 connector to the hard drive from a dead PC that had CentOS 7 and Windows 7 installed in a dual boot fashion. I want to access the data from the CentOS partition of the old hard drive using the CentOS 7 running inside VirtualBox on the new PC.
Now that VirtualBox can see the USB device, how can I get CentOS 7 to see and manipulate the USB device?
hard-drive usb windows-8.1 virtualbox centos
hard-drive usb windows-8.1 virtualbox centos
edited Mar 8 '17 at 16:59
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asked Jun 23 '15 at 18:18
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edited Mar 8 '17 at 16:59
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asked Jun 23 '15 at 18:18
CodeMedCodeMed
214723
edited Mar 8 '17 at 16:59
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edited Mar 8 '17 at 16:59
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edited Mar 8 '17 at 16:59
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asked Jun 23 '15 at 18:18
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asked Jun 23 '15 at 18:18
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asked Jun 23 '15 at 18:18
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It should just show up, maybe you should try re-installing virtual box?
– TheKB
Jun 23 '15 at 19:07
add a comment |
It should just show up, maybe you should try re-installing virtual box?
– TheKB
Jun 23 '15 at 19:07
It should just show up, maybe you should try re-installing virtual box?
– TheKB
Jun 23 '15 at 19:07
It should just show up, maybe you should try re-installing virtual box?
– TheKB
Jun 23 '15 at 19:07
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In the Virtualbox host, open settings -> ports -> USB the second icon on the right with the small plus sign.
Select the USB device you want to use.
Disconnect and reconnect the device.
If that doesn't work, using the above settings:
- disconnect the USB device,
- shutdown the virtual machine
- start the virtual machine and wait for it to load
- insert the USB device
Last resort, still with the steps at 1
- unmount the device from windows and try to mount it from virtualbox's guest window at the bottom (the small usb connector icon)
For me, it usually works with step 2.
answered Jun 23 '15 at 20:09
TheBrickTheBrick
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Thank you. But those three options do not work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled both VirtualBox and CentOS. This is holding up work that I need to do in CentOS with files from the old hard drive.
– CodeMed
Jun 23 '15 at 21:04
This may sound lot of work, but did you consider running an Ubuntu (or whatever) Live distro from a different usb stick and run a guest OS in it? If it works, you can at least extract your data from the VM.
– TheBrick
Jun 24 '15 at 10:05
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In the Virtualbox host, open settings -> ports -> USB the second icon on the right with the small plus sign.
Select the USB device you want to use.
Disconnect and reconnect the device.
If that doesn't work, using the above settings:
- disconnect the USB device,
- shutdown the virtual machine
- start the virtual machine and wait for it to load
- insert the USB device
Last resort, still with the steps at 1
- unmount the device from windows and try to mount it from virtualbox's guest window at the bottom (the small usb connector icon)
For me, it usually works with step 2.
answered Jun 23 '15 at 20:09
TheBrickTheBrick
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Thank you. But those three options do not work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled both VirtualBox and CentOS. This is holding up work that I need to do in CentOS with files from the old hard drive.
– CodeMed
Jun 23 '15 at 21:04
This may sound lot of work, but did you consider running an Ubuntu (or whatever) Live distro from a different usb stick and run a guest OS in it? If it works, you can at least extract your data from the VM.
– TheBrick
Jun 24 '15 at 10:05
add a comment |
In the Virtualbox host, open settings -> ports -> USB the second icon on the right with the small plus sign.
Select the USB device you want to use.
Disconnect and reconnect the device.
If that doesn't work, using the above settings:
- disconnect the USB device,
- shutdown the virtual machine
- start the virtual machine and wait for it to load
- insert the USB device
Last resort, still with the steps at 1
- unmount the device from windows and try to mount it from virtualbox's guest window at the bottom (the small usb connector icon)
For me, it usually works with step 2.
answered Jun 23 '15 at 20:09
TheBrickTheBrick
1
Thank you. But those three options do not work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled both VirtualBox and CentOS. This is holding up work that I need to do in CentOS with files from the old hard drive.
– CodeMed
Jun 23 '15 at 21:04
This may sound lot of work, but did you consider running an Ubuntu (or whatever) Live distro from a different usb stick and run a guest OS in it? If it works, you can at least extract your data from the VM.
– TheBrick
Jun 24 '15 at 10:05
add a comment |
In the Virtualbox host, open settings -> ports -> USB the second icon on the right with the small plus sign.
Select the USB device you want to use.
Disconnect and reconnect the device.
If that doesn't work, using the above settings:
- disconnect the USB device,
- shutdown the virtual machine
- start the virtual machine and wait for it to load
- insert the USB device
Last resort, still with the steps at 1
- unmount the device from windows and try to mount it from virtualbox's guest window at the bottom (the small usb connector icon)
For me, it usually works with step 2.
answered Jun 23 '15 at 20:09
TheBrickTheBrick
1
In the Virtualbox host, open settings -> ports -> USB the second icon on the right with the small plus sign.
Select the USB device you want to use.
Disconnect and reconnect the device.
If that doesn't work, using the above settings:
- disconnect the USB device,
- shutdown the virtual machine
- start the virtual machine and wait for it to load
- insert the USB device
Last resort, still with the steps at 1
- unmount the device from windows and try to mount it from virtualbox's guest window at the bottom (the small usb connector icon)
For me, it usually works with step 2.
answered Jun 23 '15 at 20:09
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Thank you. But those three options do not work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled both VirtualBox and CentOS. This is holding up work that I need to do in CentOS with files from the old hard drive.
– CodeMed
Jun 23 '15 at 21:04
This may sound lot of work, but did you consider running an Ubuntu (or whatever) Live distro from a different usb stick and run a guest OS in it? If it works, you can at least extract your data from the VM.
– TheBrick
Jun 24 '15 at 10:05
add a comment |
Thank you. But those three options do not work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled both VirtualBox and CentOS. This is holding up work that I need to do in CentOS with files from the old hard drive.
– CodeMed
Jun 23 '15 at 21:04
This may sound lot of work, but did you consider running an Ubuntu (or whatever) Live distro from a different usb stick and run a guest OS in it? If it works, you can at least extract your data from the VM.
– TheBrick
Jun 24 '15 at 10:05
Thank you. But those three options do not work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled both VirtualBox and CentOS. This is holding up work that I need to do in CentOS with files from the old hard drive.
– CodeMed
Jun 23 '15 at 21:04
Thank you. But those three options do not work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled both VirtualBox and CentOS. This is holding up work that I need to do in CentOS with files from the old hard drive.
– CodeMed
Jun 23 '15 at 21:04
This may sound lot of work, but did you consider running an Ubuntu (or whatever) Live distro from a different usb stick and run a guest OS in it? If it works, you can at least extract your data from the VM.
– TheBrick
Jun 24 '15 at 10:05
This may sound lot of work, but did you consider running an Ubuntu (or whatever) Live distro from a different usb stick and run a guest OS in it? If it works, you can at least extract your data from the VM.
– TheBrick
Jun 24 '15 at 10:05
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It should just show up, maybe you should try re-installing virtual box?
– TheKB
Jun 23 '15 at 19:07