Thank you. I thought there was a way to access host hard drives.
"Robert Comer" wrote:
Quote:
> Virtual Server doesn't have that capability. You'll have to do it
> with a "Network drive" (normal shared networking)
>
> --
> 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:
> >>
> >> >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)
> >>
>