Vista - Accessing physical disk.

12-12-2008

I'm trying to setup a Virtual Machine to have full access to a physical disk
on my system by creating a virtual disk that is linked to the physical disk.
However the disk i want to use it not listed in the Virtual Disk Wizard.

The system has two disks one 120GB that is my system disk running Vista and
Virtual PC (This is shown in Virtual Disk Wizard). The second disk (the one
i want to access from VPC) is a 1TB disk but it does not show up in Virtual
Disk Wizard so i cannot create a link to it. It shows up fine in Vistas Disk
Manger application so its
working fine from the host OS.

Any tips?

12-12-2008

>It shows up fine in Vistas Disk

Quote:

>Manger application so its
>working fine from the host OS.

That's basically your problem, only one of the two (host / VM) can see
the disk at a time. To get the VM to be able to see it you must
remove the drive letter.

--
Bob Comer

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:04:01 -0800, tdl0
<tdl0@xxxxxx> wrote:

Quote:

>I'm trying to setup a Virtual Machine to have full access to a physical disk
>on my system by creating a virtual disk that is linked to the physical disk.
>However the disk i want to use it not listed in the Virtual Disk Wizard.
>
>The system has two disks one 120GB that is my system disk running Vista and
>Virtual PC (This is shown in Virtual Disk Wizard). The second disk (the one
>i want to access from VPC) is a 1TB disk but it does not show up in Virtual
>Disk Wizard so i cannot create a link to it. It shows up fine in Vistas Disk
>Manger application so its
>working fine from the host OS.
>
>Any tips?

12-12-2008	#1 (permalink)
tdl0 n/a posts	Accessing physical disk. I'm trying to setup a Virtual Machine to have full access to a physical disk on my system by creating a virtual disk that is linked to the physical disk. However the disk i want to use it not listed in the Virtual Disk Wizard. The system has two disks one 120GB that is my system disk running Vista and Virtual PC (This is shown in Virtual Disk Wizard). The second disk (the one i want to access from VPC) is a 1TB disk but it does not show up in Virtual Disk Wizard so i cannot create a link to it. It shows up fine in Vistas Disk Manger application so its working fine from the host OS. Any tips?
My System Specs

12-12-2008	#2 (permalink)
Robert Comer n/a posts	Re: Accessing physical disk. >It shows up fine in Vistas Disk Quote: >Manger application so its >working fine from the host OS. That's basically your problem, only one of the two (host / VM) can see the disk at a time. To get the VM to be able to see it you must remove the drive letter. -- Bob Comer On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:04:01 -0800, tdl0 <tdl0@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >I'm trying to setup a Virtual Machine to have full access to a physical disk >on my system by creating a virtual disk that is linked to the physical disk. >However the disk i want to use it not listed in the Virtual Disk Wizard. > >The system has two disks one 120GB that is my system disk running Vista and >Virtual PC (This is shown in Virtual Disk Wizard). The second disk (the one >i want to access from VPC) is a 1TB disk but it does not show up in Virtual >Disk Wizard so i cannot create a link to it. It shows up fine in Vistas Disk >Manger application so its >working fine from the host OS. > >Any tips?
My System Specs

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