Ok, so I'm not experienced enough to know what my problem is exactly. I have VMware Workstation Pro 17 running on a Dell Latitude Laptop Windows 11. I have successfully created the virtual machine from the SR ISO and have SR 6.1 Rel 4 running. SR starts and everything looks great, performs mem test etc. When I get to "Discovering Mass Storage Devices" it only sees the SR Virtual Disk, I get a second line that says...Type - BIOS...Port - 80...Model - This Drive cannot be accessed. The drive that I have plugged in and connected to the VM is an 8GB Thumb Drive. When not connected to the VM the Host OS sees the Thumb Drive just fine. What am I missing here?
Running SR 6.1 in VMware Workstation Pro 17
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