I have set up VMWARE Worksation 7 to use as a malware analysis machine for SATA drives, my host machine picks up the SATA drive fine but VmWare is unable to access it at power up.
- My setup consists of a Windows 7 X64 Guest on a virtual disc, an external SATA drive is connected to my host which contains the infections.
- On my host I set device manager to set the SATA drive to be offline.
- I added the SATA drive using the Add Physical Disc wizard in Workstation.
- I set the VMDK with full permissions for the everyone group.
VMWARE picks up the hard disc but when I try and start my virtual machine I get an error about permissions?
Adding the files manually to the Guest OS is not workable as they number 100GB+ has anyone had success adding SATA HDDs before to Workstation?
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