2nd Physical Windows Hard Disk in Parallels

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by Doug Shannon, Mar 24, 2009.

  1. Doug Shannon

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    My boot camp install has two physical disks, one for Windows and one for Storage. I've set up Parallels to use the system disk, but I can't get the second disk to act like a Windows disk in the virtual machine.

    The Add Hardware screen in Configure only seems to allow you to setup the boot disk, or is there something I'm missing? Basically I want the storage disk to appear in the virtual machine as a window disk rather than as a shared folder.

    Any help appreciated.
     
  2. nrbrook

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  3. desh

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    Can anyone help me accomplish this task? I can get the system disk up fine, but when I try and add the second disk in the vm configuration dialog I get the following error:

    "Failed to configure the boot camp partitions hard disk. A disk configuration error has occurred. Make sure that you have read/write permissions for the disk."

    When I added a second hard drive, I set it up as a "Boot Camp Partition" and pointed it to the second physical disk. I don't receive this error when adding Hard Disk 2 as a Image File.
     
  4. desh

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    Anyone have any hints for this issue? I still haven't been able to add a second physical windows HD to my vm configuration. Tech support hasn't come up with a solution yet. Is a second physical drive even supported?
     

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