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Physical hard disk option in Windows 2008 R2 HyperV

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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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.

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Thanks for the additonal info. Just to be clear, you write:

"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. "

Once I've done this I can view the file folders/file structure on the drive via the Explorer option in Disk Manager?

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Thanks.