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jovancha
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How to mount host HDD into VM during boot?

Hi to all.

I have, may be a silly question. After creating a VM in win7 x64 host, setting it up, I power my VM and enter into it's BIOS. There I can see only cd-dvd drive and hdd that I have been created for this VM. There is no host hdds (I have 2, ssd - with OS, and hdd with 2 partitions for storage (let's call it hddB from now on)). I'm wondering, is there an option to mount or do something to be able to access this hddB from beginning, from boot? Why do I need that? I wan to after I power up my VM, boot from cd-dvd, use some tool (acronis backup and recovery (AB&R from now on)) to access to my hddB and do a restore of an image I have created earlier. After I power up my VM and boot AB&R, on local folders I don't see my hddB, and on network I'm not always see my host and another PC, connected via router, on the list. Networking is good, because I can see and access this 2 PC's each other, and another VM that is installed on host is networking OK.

Used software: OS: win7 x64, VMware Workstation: 11, Acronis: Acronis  backup & recovery 11.5

Jovan.

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continuum
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To see harddisks of the hosts inside a VM BIOS you would need to add those disks to the VM as physical disks first.
Also keep in mind that only IDE-disks will be listed on page 1 of the VMware BIOS.
Scsi virtrual disks will only be listed in the page for BOOT


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