Thanks for your reply. I've done that and it does work. What I'm really after though is to point my IIS root directory to an external disk drive so that I can run my web server with data completely outside my virtual environment. I was able to do this with my previous USB approach to an external hard disk. The problem I'm running into is that the final ok button is greyed out when I point the IIS root to a mapped drive - I cannot complete the process, although the system sees the files. It's as if the external hard disk has to be completely and soley dedicated to the virtual environment. This is also the case with SQL server.
Someone said that this might be a permissions issue. I played around with permissions but I'm not sure at what level I should be looking at.
