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    How To Mount Physical Drive Partitions On Vmware

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    This document provides steps to mount physical drive partitions in VMware. It begins by explaining that users want to access physical partitions from within their virtual machines. It then provides 7 steps to map a physical disk partition in VMware Workstation: 1) Go to settings, 2) Add hardware, 3) Select hard disk, 4) Choose to use a physical disk, 5) Select the specific physical drive and partition, 6) Specify a disk file name, 7) Start the virtual machine to access the new drive. The key is running VMware as Administrator to avoid errors about the disk already being in use.

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    How To Mount Physical Drive Partitions On Vmware

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    This document provides steps to mount physical drive partitions in VMware. It begins by explaining that users want to access physical partitions from within their virtual machines. It then provides 7 steps to map a physical disk partition in VMware Workstation: 1) Go to settings, 2) Add hardware, 3) Select hard disk, 4) Choose to use a physical disk, 5) Select the specific physical drive and partition, 6) Specify a disk file name, 7) Start the virtual machine to access the new drive. The key is running VMware as Administrator to avoid errors about the disk already being in use.

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    This document provides steps to mount physical drive partitions in VMware. It begins by explaining that users want to access physical partitions from within their virtual machines. It then provides 7 steps to map a physical disk partition in VMware Workstation: 1) Go to settings, 2) Add hardware, 3) Select hard disk, 4) Choose to use a physical disk, 5) Select the specific physical drive and partition, 6) Specify a disk file name, 7) Start the virtual machine to access the new drive. The key is running VMware as Administrator to avoid errors about the disk already being in use.

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    How To Mount Physical Drive Partitions On Vmware

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    This document provides steps to mount physical drive partitions in VMware. It begins by explaining that users want to access physical partitions from within their virtual machines. It then provides 7 steps to map a physical disk partition in VMware Workstation: 1) Go to settings, 2) Add hardware, 3) Select hard disk, 4) Choose to use a physical disk, 5) Select the specific physical drive and partition, 6) Specify a disk file name, 7) Start the virtual machine to access the new drive. The key is running VMware as Administrator to avoid errors about the disk already being in use.

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    How to Mount Physical Drive Partitions on vmware

    How access physical hard disk in vmware virtual machine? Here is our first vmware article explaining vmware
    physical disk access easily.

    After installing virtual machine on vmware workstation you cannot see your other physical partitions in
    virtual machine.

    Everyone likes to open physical hard drive partitions on virtual machine in order to access all other files. We
    have already explained how to access physical hard disk on Oracle Virtual Box.

    This article deals with the same issue but the platform is vmware workstation. I faced little bit trouble when
    I try to add my hard disk. Later I successfully managed physical hard disk on vmware.

    Steps to vmware Mount Physical Partition Steps

    Here is the simple way to vmware open physical partition.

    I have 5 partitions in my PC. I want to connect the drive D:\ Data to virtual machine. My Virtual machine
    is running Windows 8
    Step 1:
    Go to VM >> Settings
    Step 2:
    In the Virtual Machine settings click Add button.
    Step 3:
    From the Add Hardware wizard select Hard disk and click Next.

    Step 4:
    Put check mark on ‘Use a physical disk (for advanced users)’ and proceed.

    Step 5:
    I have 3 hard disks and 5 partitions in total, my D:\ drive located in PhysicalDrive1. Hence I choose
    PhysicalDrive1. If you want to access all partitions inside the drive put check on ‘Use entire disk’, but in
    my case I need only 1 partition so I checked ‘Use individual partitions’ option. Now click Next.
    Step 6:
    You will be directed to Select Physical Disk Partitions, choose required partition and click Next.

    Step 7:
    Specify a disk file name [example Data], that’s all finish.
    Step 8:
    Close the vmware interface

    Then open it again as Administrator, now start the virtual machine OS.

    See you can open the physical disk drive now!


    Here See I successfully mount my D:\ drive on virtual machine.

    After mounting the disk partition your access to the same partition from the host machine get blocked. You should
    close virtual machine to get access to the drive again from the host PC.

    [Solved] Physical Disk is already in use

    After doing the above steps you may get an error message “The physical disk already in use, cannot open
    the disk”. In this case run vmware as Administrator.

    That’s all about vmware physical to virtual drive mapping.


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