virtual box 3.1.0

[Njasmine]

I'm trying to mount a usb drive in windows xp virtual box. Under devices>usb devices> western digital is there but will not let me click it. I've tried details on the virtual box page enable the usb controller and everything.

What am I doing wrong?

Os is Linux Mint 7
Virtual box Windows xp

Im just trying to mount my external hard drive

thank you

[xlinux1010]

My guess is you need to format the disk first to a FAT filesystem, install "gparted" from synaptic, reboot (usually need to reboot in my experience to get it to work properly with the hard disks), then open gparted (as sudo / root to be safe) and format the USB drive as a FAT (or FAT32 I think is an option) then apply the changes and it may be recognizable by virtual box

[Rubberman]

My guess is you need to format the disk first to a FAT filesystem, install "gparted" from synaptic, reboot (usually need to reboot in my experience to get it to work properly with the hard disks), then open gparted (as sudo / root to be safe) and format the USB drive as a FAT (or FAT32 I think is an option) then apply the changes and it may be recognizable by virtual box

That should not be the case. Since the drive is a USB drive you need to enable USB pass-thru for the virtual machine. However, you indicated that you did that. You might need to restart VBox and your xp virtual machine. Myself, I just mount the external drive file system on the host where the xp virtual machine can access it and then create a drive letter to that network directory. Works just fine for me. I don't bother trying to mount the USB drive in Windows directly because I've had similar problems in the past with earlier versions of VBox.

[Peace9r]

Which version of Virtual Box are you using ?

I suspect that you are using the OSE version which does not have USB functionality.

If you install the PUEL version with Guest Additions, USB functionality is enabled.