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use ide physical disk as ide virtual disk in virtual machine in VMWare

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In VMWare the option to mount an IDE physical disk as a virtual disk is not obvious and not directely supported. All physical disks are mounted as SCSI. This is very unhelpful. Below is a work around to allow you to add an IDE physical drive as a virtual drive in VMWare.

  • Create you virtual machine as normal
  • mount the physical disk as normal (SCSI will be selected)
  • Close and save the virtual machine
  • edit the .vmdk file for the raw disk and changed ddb.adapterType to "ide".
  • in .vmx file replace all occurences of "scsi0:0" with "ide0:0"

The physical drive can now be accessed from within VMWare as an ide drive.

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