How To Mount Physical Drive Partitions On Vmware
How To Mount Physical Drive Partitions On Vmware
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.
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.
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.
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.