Mounting an encrypted USB drive in a Hyper-V VM

[David Chase]

I have to apologize in advance, I've been using VC for years but my knowledge about it is limited to mounting and unmounting my devices. So I'm gonna sound pretty novice here.

What I've done for a while is I have a physical laptop running Win7 that's been "hardened" and I have a USB drive I mount using VeraCrypt to access my data. The laptop died the true death recently and I've decided that instead of using physical hardware, I'll create a Windows 10 VM under Hyper-V, harden the VM, then mount my data volume there.

So I've created my VM and I'm using Enhanced Session Mode to make several USB drives visible within my VM, including the Veracrypt-encrypted volume. My encrypted drive (the drive letter) is appearing fine on the VM, but it's still encrypted and unmounted. When I open VC and click "Select Device", none of the USB drives which I've mapped into the VM are on the list. Since I can't select the device, I clearly can't mount it.

Just to test, I tried mounting the drive from the host PC and it works. But I don't want the host PC to be able to see my unencrypted data. Only the hardened VM should have access to see the unencrypted contents. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong and how I can mount a physical USB drive that's been encrypted with VC, inside a Hyper-V VM? TIA for any suggestions!