Accessing a 2TB Physical Hard Drive on a Laptop with VirtualBox (Windows 10 Home)

Accessing a 2TB Physical Hard Drive on a Laptop using VirtualBox (Windows 10 Home)

In this article, we will discuss the steps required to access a 2TB physical hard drive on a laptop, specifically a HP 15-da0061cl notebook running Windows 10 Home, using VirtualBox.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, ensure that you have the following:

• A laptop with a 2TB physical hard drive
• Windows 10 Home installed on the laptop
• VirtualBox installed on the laptop

Steps to Access the 2TB Physical Hard Drive

Follow the steps below to access the 2TB physical hard drive on your laptop using VirtualBox:

1. Launch VirtualBox on your laptop.
2. Click on the New button to create a new virtual machine.
3. In the Create Virtual Machine dialog box, enter a name for the virtual machine, select the type as Microsoft Windows and the version as Windows 10 (64-bit).
4. Set the memory size to at least 2048 MB.
5. Click on the Create button to create the virtual machine.
6. In the Virtual Machine Manager window, select the virtual machine that you just created and click on the Settings button.
7. In the Settings window, click on the Storage option.
8. Under the Storage Tree, click on the Add Hard Disk button.
9. In the Add Hard Disk dialog box, select Choose existing disk and click on the Folder icon.
10. In the VirtualBox Disk Image (VDI) dialog box, navigate to the location where the 2TB physical hard drive is located and select it.
11. Click on the Open button to add the physical hard drive to the virtual machine.
12. Click on the OK button to save the changes.
13. Start the virtual machine and install a 64-bit version of Windows 10 on it.
14. Once the installation is complete, you can access the 2TB physical hard drive from the virtual machine.

Code Block

Here is an example of how to access the physical hard drive from the command prompt in Windows 10:

In this article, we discussed the steps required to access a 2TB physical hard drive on a laptop running Windows 10 Home using VirtualBox. We covered the prerequisites and the steps to access the physical hard drive. We also provided an example of how to access the physical hard drive from the command prompt in Windows 10.

References

• Type: Article
  Title: How to access a physical hard drive in VirtualBox
  Author: VirtualBox Community
  Link: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=63133
• Type: Article
  Title: How to attach a physical hard drive to a virtual machine in VirtualBox
  Author: VirtualBox Community
  Link: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk