VM Fusion Cant see external drives in XP

I am new to the Mac world. I haved installed VM Fusion to run XP but windows does not see any of my external devises. I have tried both a thumb drive and a external HD. I can see both of the devices on the Mac side. My Mac is running Tiger.

Since Fusion is not an Apple product, you'll probably want to post your question in the VMWare Community Forums:
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/desktop/fusion

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kmchenry8446 wrote:
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