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Old 10-29-2008   #2 (permalink)
Bo Berglund


 
 

Re: Virtual Disk not available

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:41:01 -0700, MacMan0295
<MacMan0295@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>I am running MSVS 2005 on a Windows Vista 64bit OS. I installed the server
>just fine and created a MS Server 2003 virtual server fine. But when I go to
>create a linked virtual disk to one of my physical drives, the available disk
>drives are not available. How do I get my physical drives to be available in
>the drop down to link?
>
You can only link to a physical disk, which is *not in use* by the
host operating system. It cannot have a drive letter associated with
it, so you need to go into the disk manager and remove the drive
letter from it in order to do the link.

But why do you want to do this?
Generally linking is only done in order to copy data from the linked
disk to an ordinary virtual disk inside a guest.

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