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Newly installed Windows 10 Pro on my 2017 5K Retina iMac. 500GIG SSD drive. All prefs are set to access the folders but Windows 10 Pro cannot see or find them. In fact it cannot see my main drive. If anyone has any ideas I could really use an assist!

Reboot the guest a couple of times. If that doesn't work and you're sure you've installed the Guest Additions, we're going to need to see a ZIPPED VBox.log from a complete VM run:

• Start the VM from cold-boot (not from a paused or saved state) / Observe error / Shutdown the VM (force close it if you have to).
• With the VM completely shut down (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
• Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form.

Moving to "Windows Guests" from "Using VirtualBox".

Fantastic your suggestions worked! I had to reinstall the Guest Additions. That solved the problem! One other question is there any way to get the VirtualBox and Windows to recognize my Apple Extended Keyboard? There is no numbers lock on the Keyboard. I am sure that there is an answer to this but it eludes me. When I go to the USB settings it refuses to accept the Keyboard though it appears in the menu of USB devices.

Glad you got it going, marking as [Solved].

As for the keyboard, that's a special class of a USB device, same with the mouse. First of all, you got to remember that USB devices cannot be shared, so its either your host, OR your guest that's going to have sole, exclusive control of the device. And you do not want your host to not have access to the keyboard.

So, unless you have a second keyboard that you can assign exclusively to the host (or the guest), then the keyboard seen by the guest is not going to be what you actually have attached to the host, it's going to be a virtual, standard keyboard, with no special keys or other fancy combinations.

If you want to continue this, open a new thread with an appropriate title. We like to keep the "one thread per problem, one problem per thread" rule. It helps if the discussion matches the title...

Thanks for the info! No need for me to start a new discussion. Thankfully I have a Windows Keyboard that I can dedicate. I discovered that people have been asking this question sine Mac OS X 10.7.5!

JohnGregory wrote:I discovered that people have been asking this question sine Mac OS X 10.7.5!

I'd amend that to "the beginning of time" (virtualization-wise). The basic principles and ideas have not changed.