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Hello, I'm sure this question has been answered elsewhere, but I can't find a good one.

I'm running VirtualBox on a linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host, with windows 7 guest. I cannot get Windows to find and download the driver required to recognize my USB drive. Virtual box recognizes it, and when I activate the USB in virtualbox Windows attempts to install the drivers, but it always fails. Any ideas? If you need more information please let me know what you need!

It's not uncommon for Windows to search and fail to find drivers for a USB device. It's more reliable for you to download the drivers to a folder and browse to it manually.

See also the USB tutorial in the Howto area.