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I'm running Windows XP on Virtual Box. I'm trying to write to a USB pen drive. VirtualBox detect the pen drive but its name is greyed our in GUI. And I couldn't pick it from the list. How can I use this pen drive with the virtual machine?

USB device greyed out

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I found the solution myself. All I need was to eject usb pen drive from mac's desktop. When the drive ejected, it became available in VirtualBox.

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    worked for me as well, VB 5.0.20 r106931 running win10
    – yiwei
    Oct 24, 2016 at 22:56
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I had to eject my USB from the host OS (macOS) but I was also using a USB 3.0 so I had to:

  1. stop my VM
  2. select my VM from the master list
  3. Go to Setting > Setting > Ports > USB > USB 3.0
  4. Add my USB
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The reason that it is grayed out is because it is in use by the host system. To be able to use it you need to:

  1. Eject the USB from the host system.
  2. Restart the VM
  3. Add the USB
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