USB Drive access from Hyper-V machine

[Kenneth Whiteman]

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" opt

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