Can't put offline disk 0 on windows 10

Question

I'm trying to boot and run the physical installation of Debian in Virtualbox on Windows 10. Since virtualbox gives to me this error :

I thought to put offline the disk 0 where debian is installed but Windows 10 refuses to do that. I tried using the powershell,but it said :

PS C:\Users\mariuccio> set-disk 0 -isOffline $true

set-disk : Operation not supported on a critical disk.

Activity ID: {de8e4c02-100c-456f-82ec-f346d8454447}

In riga:1 car:1

• set-disk 0 -isOffline $true

• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  • CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (StorageWMI:ROOT/

Microsoft/..._StorageCmdlets) [Set-Disk],CimException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 41009,Set-Disk

and also disk 1 :

PS C:\Users\mariuccio> set-disk 1 -isOffline $true

set-disk : Operation not supported on a critical disk.

Activity ID: {96302326-44ea-4283-a42b-c7f6537d3725}

In riga:1 car:1

• set-disk 0 -isOffline $true

• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  • CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (StorageWMI:ROOT/

Microsoft/..._StorageCmdlets) [Set-Disk],CimException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 41009,Set-Disk

This is the structure of the disks :

On the partition of 103,51 GB of the disk 0 there is the installation of Debian and on the 4,41 GB there is the swap partition...I've disabled the paging file on all drives...what do you suggest to me to do ? thanks.

Answer 1

Try running this in powershell and ensure it doesn't report that there is a pagefile there:

get-ciminstance -classname win32_pagefileusage

If that doesn't work, try unmounting D: first and then take it offline (right click the D: and click "Change Drive letters and paths" and just remove the drive letter). You can always put it back.

Be sure to restart as well.

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Also try starting Windows in 'safe mode with networking' and see if it will let you unmount the drive then.