Originally Posted By: andy
Virtualbox can handle passing through USB on Windows (and other platforms). But it can be a real pain to get working. Except when it just works first time, unexpectedly...

Yeah, I agree. That's my experience with it too, actually. So yes, it's probably better to do it from a native box. Or a Live distro.
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