Acer recovery partition

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:58:35PM -0500, Randy Jonasz wrote:
> Ok, after installing Oracle's extensions, I was able to attach the
> USB drive to Windows.  But the problem I had was that I could not
> access content from within Windows.  The solution is to NOT unmount
> the drive in linux first.  When I attach the drive to Windows, it
> looks like Virtual Box unmounts it for me and attaches it to Windows
> and I can then access content yay!  One problem remains:  The drive
> I was able to use was an old USB 2 2G drive.  My Kingston 32G USB 3
> drive does not want to play nicely with Windows.  The OS complains
> it is an unkown device.  Yet linux accesses it without any problem.

I don't think virtualbox does USB3 passthrough yet.  If you connect it
to a USB2 port on the linux box, it will probably work since then it
becomes a USB2 device.

After all if it is a USB3 port on linux, and it negotiates USB3 speed,
the virtual USB2 link in windows can't handle it.

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Len Sorensen
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