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Maybe this is on another post but I cant seem to find an answer to my problem. I am trying to run an ISO utility on a VM. DBAN or Darik's Boot and Nuke. When I initially set it up I was able to connect to an external (swappable) USB 3 hard drive. I was able to use the utility to wipe the drive. I shut down the VM and swapped the HD. When I restarted the VM it would not find the USB Hard drive. I put the old drive back it an tried that but no luck. I was able to connect to a drive one other time but that was when I changed the filter REMOTE setting. But once again when I shut down and restarted it would no longer find the drive. I have opened Disk management and Device manager while running Virtual Box. When the Pluggable USB drive is listed and I start the DBAN guest I can see VBox take the drive from the host, but it is not found by the guest. When I shut the guest down sometimes the drive is reconnected to the WIN 10 host and sometimes it is not until the system is restarted.

Any help would be appreciated.

It's usually much easier to access a host drive as a shared folder.