Hi Grant, I’m not sure I’m getting what your trying to do.
Disk Utilitiy is a Mac OS service / application, I don’t know that you could format or partition a USB drive of a windows VM using disk util. If you insert the USB to the mac and then format or partition the USB using disk utilities and then connect the USB to your windows VM would this not do what your trying to do? You could format the USB under disk utilities as a FAT32 drive and then install as part of the VM windows installation, however it will most likely want you to reformat it as an NTFS file system Hope that is helpful. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grant Sent: Monday, 25 April 2016 7:43 AM To: MacVisionaries List <[email protected]> Subject: Formatting a USB drive from a virtual machine Hello all, In a VMWare virtual machine, I’m trying to use the diskpart utility to format a USB drive so I can use it to install Windows. When I try to do this, Diskpart gives an internal error and the drive unmounts from the VM. Has anyone had success performing this kind of hardware function from a virtual machine? If not, is there a reason why it cannot be done? The device is, of course, set to “connect to Windows” rather than “connect to Mac”. Thanks for any advice. Grant -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
