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I have installed Virtual Box on Machine and setup a Ubuntu 9.10 machine. And I have an external hard drive formatted for linux. But when I hook up the external hard drive, my ubuntu 9.10 can't see the external hard drive. Can you please tell me how to setup the external hard drive for my ubuntu 9.10 environment?

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In the settings for your virtual machine, ensure USB is enabled and add a USB device filter so it can only be picked up by the virtual machine when it's running:

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Thanks. But what kind of filter I should add to allow me to read/write to this external hard drive? I tried 'Generic', but it does not work. I tried 'New Filter', it does not work either. – hap497 Dec 24 '09 at 7:14
There should be preset filters if you have the device plugged in. It will show up as an option when you click on the usb cable with the + on it. – John T Dec 24 '09 at 7:39
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