VirtualBox - adding slave hard disk

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#1

Virtual Box 1.6.2 Sun/Innotek version on SuSE 10.3.

My XP guest is starting to fill up the virtual hard disk. So, I follow
instructions and create a second 10Gb dynamic *.vdi, register it as
primary/slave and restart XP.

Both hard disks now appear in Device manager but only the primary/master
(C: drive) shows up in “My Computer”.

Much rereading of manual/help file has left me no closer to a solution.
Probably something stupid I’ve missed. Any suggestions?

And a second question which the answer to is probably no. Is there any
way to resize (increase the maximum size) of a dynamic *.vdi after it’s
been created and XP installed on it. I presume that, even if it was
possible, it’ll screw up Microslurps dreaded “activation” mechanism.

Regards
Gordon

#2

You’re in xp now, so you’ll have to initiate, partition
and format it in xp, just as you would do in real xp.

#3

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:26:04 +0000, hank se wrote:

> You’re in xp now, so you’ll have to initiate, partition and format it in
> xp, just as you would do in real xp.

OK. Partition and format I follow but how do I initiate it?

Thanks
Gordon

#4

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:10:11 +0000, spectrum2000 wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:26:04 +0000, hank se wrote:
>
>> You’re in xp now, so you’ll have to initiate, partition and format it
>> in xp, just as you would do in real xp.
>
> OK. Partition and format I follow but how do I initiate it?

Found it under Administrative Tools.

Thanks
Gordon