Adding New Virtual Hard Disk To Virtual Machine
I’m using Vmware for some application testing and I have been alerted that there is not enough disk space for the virtual machine I am running; therefore I require to allocate more disk space to the virtual machine by adding new virtual hard disk.
However, after I created new virtual disk and attached to the virtual machine, I can see it appear in BIOS but after I successfully logon to Windows it doesn’t appear in “My Computer”. What’s wrong? Here I will show you how I solve this and make it appear in “My Computer”.
1. Create new virtual disk
01 - Create New Virtual Disk Page
02 - Selecting Hard Disk Drive To Add
03 - What To Do With The Disk Drive
04 - Select Hard Disk Type
05 - Allocate Disk Space
06 - Summary Page Of Virtual Machine Setting
2. Ensure the new virtual disk has been attached and detected
07 - Hard Drive Detected In BIOS
3. Initialize Disk Drive
08 - Access Computer Management To Setup The Disk
09 - Initialize Disk To The System
4. Disk partition
10 - Partition The New Virtual Disk
11 - Select The New Virtual Disk As Extended Disk
12 - Allocate Disk Space For The Partition
5. Assign disk drive letter and format
13 - Configure Logical Drive
14 - Select The Type Of Partition
15 - Select Partition Size To Use
16 - Assign Drive Letter To The Disk
17 - Select Storage File Format and Perform Formatting
After completed the steps, I can find the new added virtual disk appear in “My Computer”.
However, after I created new virtual disk and attached to the virtual machine, I can see it appear in BIOS but after I successfully logon to Windows it doesn’t appear in “My Computer”. What’s wrong? Here I will show you how I solve this and make it appear in “My Computer”.
1. Create new virtual disk
2. Ensure the new virtual disk has been attached and detected
3. Initialize Disk Drive
4. Disk partition
5. Assign disk drive letter and format
After completed the steps, I can find the new added virtual disk appear in “My Computer”.
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