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Cygwin: Associate Windows 7 disk number with physical location
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Is is possible from Cygwin (Windows 7) to discover the disk "Location" (in this case specific SATA port) given only the Windows disk number, e.g. "Disk 1" is on SATA channel 3.
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VirtualBox: Why Virtual Hard Disk is showing more space than assigned?
I am using VirtualBox Version 4.3.20. Host operating system is Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1, 64-bit.
I created a Virtual Machine for Linux Ubuntu 13.10. For the Virtual Hard Drive I set the ...
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Three virtual machines, one virtualhard drive for the same OS
Is it possible to create three different Virtual Machines, and use the same Virtual Hard Drive using same Operating System?
I will be installing a Windows 7 Professional OS at the Virtual Hard Drive, ...
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Windows 7 installs to non C drive and can't boot
Windows 7 setup and repair seems to randomly assign drive letters. Sometimes you get really lucky and the drive you want to install windows to is already C:. Others, it picks D: for example, happily ...
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Can't create vmdk from raw disk: VERR_SHARING_VIOLATION
I'm using this answer to create a vmdk file from my secondary hard drive. My problem is I keep getting an error stating:
VBoxManage.exe: error: Cannot open the raw disk '\\.\PhysicalDrive0': ...
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How to convert Dynamically Sized VirtualBox Hard Drive to a Fixed size?
I have been trying to convert the Dynamically sized hard drive to a fixed size to increase the VM box performance. I tried to follow the instruction on Convert Dynamically Sized VirtualBox VDI Hard ...
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Converting VirtualBox VM to Main OS? [duplicate]
I am running Windows 7 on my main machine, however I have installed Mac OS X Mavericks to a VirtualBox VM (on another hard drive) which I am tend to be using a fair bit.
The VM is fully setup and ...
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VirtualBox in Win7: cannot acces external drive from guest Windows7
I have started using VirtualBox in Windows 7 out of curiosity and for testing purposes. (Mainly, I want to test Linux distros and to try and see how Windows works in this environment - so that I might ...
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Virtualbox access internal drive
How can I access an internal drive from my guest systems? My host is Windows 7.
I tried the manual, but when I attach the new vmdk to a Windows 7 guest, it is displayed as unformatted with zero disk ...
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VirtualBox: Windows 7 says it's not genuine
I've set up a Windows 7 guest machine under Windows 7 using oracle virtualbox 4.2.
This Windows Guest has its own product key which corresponds to the boxed set I
purchased for the sole purpose of ...
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VirtualBox: Windows 7 Image: Allocating more Hard DIsk Space [duplicate]
I've installed Windows 7 in Oracle VirtualBox.
I would like to increase the hard disk size of
the virtual disk image so that I can install
Adobe Illustrator (Ai).
Can I simply stretch the disk size ...
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Is it possible to boot a single Linux installation from both inside a VM and as host?
What I am thinking about is, that I'd install a linux on a hard drive to boot it normally. In addition to that, I'd create a VM on Windows, that would use the same raw mapped hard drive.
That way I ...
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Adding Ubuntu hard drive to existing windows 7 system
I have a windows 7 computer that I would like to connect a second hard drive to that contains ubuntu. I plan on running that copy of ubuntu inside virtualbox while using windows.
However, I can't ...
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Installing fedora, it want to destroy /dev/sda?
I'm installing Fedora 14 in a VirtualBox VM on my Windows 7 host. I've loaded the Fedora iso and am now running the "live CD". I've followed the steps in "install to hard drive" and receive the ...
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