How to connect ANY External USB to Hyper-v virtual machine (Mass Storage Disk / Flash Drive)
Learn how to connect or mount an external USB drive to a Hyper-V virtual machine step-by-step.
In this tutorial, I show how to use USB passthrough in Hyper-V to access external USB storage, flash drives, external hard disk, hardrive, printers, com port and mass storage disks inside a Windows Hyper-V VM.
This method works for:
External USB hard drives
USB flash drives (pen drives)
Mass storage devices
Printers and other devices
Windows 10 & Windows 11 Hyper-V virtual machines
📌 What You’ll Learn in This Video:
How Hyper-V handles USB devices
How to connect an external USB drive to a Hyper-V VM
USB passthrough workaround for Hyper-V
Common issues and fixes when USB doesn’t appear in VM
❗ Important Notes:
Hyper-V does not natively support USB passthrough, but this video explains a working and reliable method to access USB storage devices inside your virtual machine.
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