I moved my old notebook via Disk2vhd to a virtual Disk. The old Notebook has a c: (System) and a d: (Data) Disk. In Disk2vhd I only select c: Drive. On the new Notebook, is the same Disk-Layout. I directly copy the old Data-d: to d: on the new Notebook. Then I generate a new virtual machine on the new notebook using the VHD created from c:.
I then want to access the hosts d: in the VM directly. As I learned the hard way, d: could not be a net-share because a lot of programs on (virtual) c: shows errors or don't start if hosts d: is connected as net-share (assigned letter d:).
Another way I tried is to use "enhanced session". The content of host d: drive is visible/usable in the VMs Explorer below Desktop. It seems not to be possible, to assign a drive letter (d:) to it, so the programs still can't access d:.
Is there a way to give the link in the Explorer the drive letter d: or an other way to use d: directly (not as physical disk, because the host also accesses d:)?
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You can convert your "D" with other converter to a sepearate vhd(x) file. Here are the article with V2V converters overview -
1run vmconnect.exe , select options and add local drive. later you can then map a drive letter to it.
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