garagedays wrote: I am connecting a seagate 1tb usb hdd to my pc after i have opened VMware player. I am trying to connect to the usb drive in order to run a virtual image off of the drive.
If the Virtual Machine is stored on the USB Drive and you're running the Virtual Machine from the USB Drive you cannot then also connect the USB Drive to the Virtual Machine! 
However to be frank though, how you've described things is somewhat confusing!