Re-Mount an External USB Drive in Ubuntu after using with VM

[dbsoundman]

I have a USB hard drive (80 GB Western Digital) that I use to store my music collection on. Since I put a lot of that music on my mp3 player which only works with windows, I had to install a windows virtual machine. I know how I can mount that hard drive with the VM by turning on the drive, then starting up the VM, but once I unmount it in the VM, how can I re-mount the drive in Ubuntu? It doesn't seem to show up anywhere. It automatically unmounts in Ubuntu when I mount it in windows, but it doesn't do the same thing going the other way. Is there a command or something I can use to do this? I can, of course, just keep resetting the drive, turning it off and back on, to make it re-appear, but I would rather do it a more streamlined way if possible. Suggestions?

Thanks,
Dan

[fjgaude]

I think if you go to the VM tab in vmware while it is running your Windows, there is the Removable Devices tab that shows USBs. Clcik on that and uncheck your USB drive.

Let us know if it works for you.

[dbsoundman]

I did uncheck that box, but it does not reappear in ubuntu after I do that...that does seem like the logical way about it, but it doesn't appear to work.

-Dan

[kumarmp]

Hi guys,


i am new user for lunux & ubuntu...my pendrive is not working with my linux box for some reason ....could soem one please let me know what is hould from scratch

thanx