USB Drive access from Hyper-V machine

Question

Goal:
Give Virtual Machine access to a USB thumb drive.

I have a Win10 Pro laptop.
I loaded Hyper-V and created Win XP Virtual Machine.
Windows XP was installed with no issues on the Virtual Machine.
When I plug in a USB thumb drive into the laptop, Win10 finds the drive with no issues.
When I start the Win XP VM, it does not show the USB thumb drive.

I have tried selecting the Settings for the VM, under Hardware, I selected SCSI Controller.

Then I select Hard Drive and hit the Add button.

This causes the dialog to change giving me access to a couple of parameters.

However the "Physical hard disk" option is greyed-out.

My research into this has led to launching the Disk Management dialog for the Win10 Pro Laptop.

My thumb drive appears as Disk 1.

When I right-mouse click on the Disk 1, there is no option to set the drive to Offline.

I looked at Disk 0, which is the laptop's main C-Drive, a right-mouse click on Disk 0 does show an Offline option.

Again, more research offered many techniques, that did not work.

I have not been able to find any solution that will work.
I don't know where else to look.

I also don't know what else to try.

Can someone assist?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello Kenneth,

I'm Amr, an independent advisor.

I apologize that this forum is for home users. Your query is more technical in nature (Hyper-V), so could you please post this question on Microsoft Q&A

Microsoft Site Q&A forum is frequented by IT experts who can help you with your problem.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/quest...

Have a great day.

Best Regards,

Amr