I followed the instructions in this guide to add the disk to my Windows 2016 server guest VM.
How to passthrough SATA drives directly on VMWare ESXI 6.5 as RDMs · GitHub
So, the drive appears and it recognizes the size in Windows. However, the problem is that it shows as a RAW partition in Windows although the drive has data in it. I don't recall if it is formatted as NTFS or exFAT, but the partition scheme is GPT. The drive is 4TB and has a single partition.
Any ideas?
Have you tried to run checkdisk ?
chkdsk /f /x /r /v F:
I don't think we can do scan disk on RAW disk.
I have same issue with 4TB GPT disk, but not on my 2TB MBR disk. I attach both disk to the same VM. Looks like this issue related to disk layout (GPT/MBR).
Finally, I can access my 4TB RDM disk. I've just attached it on SATA (virtual) controller on the VM.
And, I have access to my 4TB (GPT) RDM disk.