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Thanks for the quick reply. However, I am not sure from my reading of the articles that an existing hard disk with data on it will be recognized - it seems to refer to raw disks. The disk I want to attach is &nbsp;a working disk and I want to access the data on it.
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Thanks for the additonal info. Just to be clear, you write:<br />
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&quot;Run DISKPART on the Hyper-V server, identify the disk and mark it offline. &nbsp;It would then appear in the list of disks that could be installed. &quot;<br />
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Once I've done this I can view the file folders/file structure on the drive via the Explorer option in Disk Manager?<br />
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What are the steps to get a physical hard drive recognized as a VHD in a 2008 R2 HyperV VM? What we are trying to accomplish is attaching a real physical drive to a VM.
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What are the steps to get a physical hard drive recognized as a VHD in a 2008 R2 HyperV VM? What we are trying to accomplish is attaching a real physical drive to a VM.

Thanks for the quick reply. However, I am not sure from my reading of the articles that an existing hard disk with data on it will be recognized - it seems to refer to raw disks. The disk I want to attach is  a working disk and I want to access the data on it.

Thanks for the additonal info. Just to be clear, you write:

&amp;quot;Run DISKPART on the Hyper-V server, identify the disk and mark it offline.  It would then appear in the list of disks that could be installed. &amp;quot;

Once I&amp;#39;ve done this I can view the file folders/file structure on the drive via the Explorer option in Disk Manager?




Physical hard disk option in Windows 2008 R2 HyperV

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.