On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Alain Roger <raf.news@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines