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            <h1>Passthrough Mounting A Physical Disk Drive in VirtualBox</h1>
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          <h2>Creating the Physical Disk VMDK</h2>

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	<li>Connect the physical disk to the host</li>
	<li>Log into the VirtualBox host</li>
	<li>Launch PowerShell as administrator</li>
	<li>Run the following commands
	<div class="codeBlock PS"># list physical disks<br />
	Get-PhysicalDisk</div>
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	<li>Take note of the disk number for the target disk to mount in VirtualBox</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands
	<div class="codeBlock PS"># cd to the virtualbox installation directory<br />
	cd &quot;$ENV:ProgramFiles\Oracle\VirtualBox&quot;<br />
	# create a vmdk disk pointing to the target physical disk<br />
	# usage<br />
	# .\VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename &quot;&lt;%fullpathto.vmdk%&gt;&quot; -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive&lt;%disknumber%&gt;<br />
	.\VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename &quot;D:\VMs\SSD.vmdk&quot; -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive2<br />
	# launch virtualbox manager<br />
	.\VirtualBox.exe</div>
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<h2>Attaching the Physical Disk to a Virtual Machine</h2>

<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em>NOTE: If you don&#39;t run VirtualBox Manager as administrator you will get permissions errors trying to access the physical disk</em></span></p>

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	<li>Right click on the target VM &gt; Settings</li>
	<li>Select Storage from the left navigation menu</li>
	<li>Click the Add Hard disk icon</li>
	<li>Click Add &gt; Browse to and select the .vmdk file created earlier</li>
	<li>Scroll to the bottom of the listing and select the .vmdk &gt; Click Choose</li>
	<li>Click OK to confirm the VM settings</li>
	<li>Right click on the target VM &gt; Start</li>
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<p>Documentation: <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk" target="_blank">https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk</a></p>          </div>
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