Vista - Virtual Disk not available

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?

Thanks

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:41:01 -0700, MacMan0295
<MacMan0295@xxxxxx> wrote:
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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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

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:

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:

Thank you. I thought there was a way to access host hard drives.

"Robert Comer" wrote:

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:12:01 -0700, MacMan0295
<MacMan0295@xxxxxx> wrote:
Yes,there is: THrough network shares....

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

Unfortunately the linked disk type in Virtual Server is only to copy
partitions to VHD's and it only works directly on the VHD, not from a
VM.

Network shares should work though...

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Bob Comer



On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:12:01 -0700, MacMan0295
<MacMan0295@xxxxxx> wrote: