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Creating a virtual machine with second pyshical drive

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  • Windows 7
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October 9, 2014 11:13:36 AM

I have a machine with 2 boot drives, both are 64 bit, Windows 7 Pro. Is there a way to create a virtual machine using the second HDD for the virtual machine. Which would keep me from having to reboot to the boot menu and selecting the other drive.

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October 9, 2014 11:22:33 AM

Should be easily able to set your Virtual Box or other VM software up to boot from the second drive.
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October 9, 2014 11:23:16 AM

Not quite sure I understand the problem. If you have both drives accessible from the host to the VMs, simply pick the desired drive to host the files. If you can't see both drives, then it isn't going to work.
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October 9, 2014 11:56:00 AM

But you'd be running bot OS's at the same time. The host OS, and then running the VM inside it(running off the new HDD). This may not really be what you want.
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October 9, 2014 12:33:08 PM

Eximo said:
Not quite sure I understand the problem. If you have both drives accessible from the host to the VMs, simply pick the desired drive to host the files. If you can't see both drives, then it isn't going to work.


I have no VM I have 2 boot drives, I was wondering if you could boot to the second drive with a VM. Right now to reach the "Darkside" machine I have to reboot F8 and select the second drive to boot to that machine. I have software which isn't compatible with others on my main machine I run for estimating, so I made a copy of my C Drive, uninstalled the incompatible software, loaded my estimating software and it works fine, was just trying to see if I could simplify the process by running a virtual machine using that second C Drive.
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