Acer recovery partition

[Randy Jonasz]

On 14-02-19 01:19 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
I never thought of that.  Alas my laptop does not have any USB2 ports.  
All four are USB3.  I'll just use my old drive when using it with 
Windows.  Thanks!

Randy


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