Installing Home Assistant on VMWare Player 17

Is there a way to share a drive from my pc to the HASS enviroment. I know we can do it the other way via the samba share addon but that does not meet the requirement. I have files that are created in windows that I want to read into Node-red and I want to eliminate the task of having to move them from my pc into the shared folder from HASS. I also wnat to use files from my idrive that come from my iphone and this would illiminate a bunch of steps.
I tried sharing the drives via vmware but it says you need to add vmware tools?
Chat GPT brought me to this thread.

Hi there!
I came here from Google after I had a crisis and my HASS got wiped and needed to reset it.
Can you add to the guide " check if you have USB device ENABLED" on machine setting ( near Remove both New CD/DVD (IDE) and Printer as they will not be used.) if you don’t have it enabled, Zigbee Adapter won’t be found.