Windows XP Jump Drive Briefcase Problems

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pws442

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I use a jump drive to transfer data back and forth between windows boxes. However, while I can create a briefcase on the Jump Drive in the Windows XP VM, it turns to a regular folder. Likewise, the briefcases I created on the jump drive on the XP box, also are treated as normal folders. I can create/update on the VM for local/network drives with no problems.

Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.
 
How are you accessing the jump drive from the VM? Are you connecting it as a USB device attached to the virtual machine or attached to the Mac? You should try attaching it to the virtual machine.
 
Jump Drive connection

When I inserted it into the USB port, it showed up both in VM XP Explorer, and Finder. When I selected connect to VM, it disappeared from both. I disconnected, and connected to Mac. It now shows up in both. Now, being before I started this thread. I thought it was odd that it was there, but disappeared from both upon selecting the VM.
 
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Solved it. Yellow in Device manager on unknown PCI device. Uninstalled. Restarted. All is well. Use VM connection. Briefcases are fine. Oddly enough, my ancient 128MB (yes, 128MB, that I paid $59 for) drive worked prior to this. Now, all is well.
 
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