Basically,
I have a Seagate Expansion Drive (1TB), I have ejected it from my MacBook and mounted it into the guest virtual machine, it comes up with the message:
This USB device can perform faster if you connect it to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port.
as if it were recognized, and then when I go to Devices and Printers, the Hard Drive is in the "Unspecified" section, and has a warning sign next to it, I click on it and then it says it needs troubleshooting, I go through the troubleshooting process, and it says that I need to re-install the device driver, so I click "apply", and it searches for a driver, and then it shows that it's installing the device driver software and it comes up with:
Device driver software was not successfully installed
It says the hard drive has a driver problem, when I have been using it fine on OS X?
Best Answer
Windows 7 does not natively support USB 3.0, which is what the Seagate® Expansion Desktop 1TB USB Drive - Specs interface is. To work around this Windows 7 native limitation, if no USB 3.0 3rd party driver for this device is available, you should be able to get it work by either plugging it into a USB 2.0 Port or into a USB 2.0 Hub before attaching it to the virtual machine.