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Old 10-29-2008   #4 (permalink)
Robert Comer


 
 

Re: Virtual Disk not available

Virtual Server doesn't have that capability. You'll have to do it
with a "Network drive" (normal shared networking)

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Bob Comer


On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:53:00 -0700, MacMan0295
<MacMan0295@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:

>Well, maybe I am doing the wrong thing. I want to be able to view my
>external hard drive to have access to all the files on the drive. How am I
>to do this?
>
>"Bo Berglund" wrote:
>
Quote:

>> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:41:01 -0700, MacMan0295
>> <MacMan0295@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
Quote:

>> >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.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bo Berglund (Sweden)
>>
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