Need Help With Hyper V & External Drives


  1. CallMeSteven
    Posts : 493
    Windows 10 Pro Dev Channel
       New #1

    Need Help With Hyper V & External Drives


    Hi There

    I am running Windows 11 in a VM. All is working fine expect that I cannot see how to show my external hard drives in File Explorer.

    When I first ran the VM I clicked on something (!) and they appeared. That VM was accidently deleted and now I cannot recall how I got the VM to see the drives!! Any help would be gratefully received.
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

  3. hsehestedt
    Posts : 4,187
    Windows 11 Pro, 22H2
       New #2

    There are a few ways you could go about this.

    1) You could share the drives on your physical machine and simply connect to those drives my mapping them just as you would connect to any drive over the network.

    2) Probably a better choice is to make use of the "Enhanced Session" capabilities in Hyper-V. This tutorial should provide all the details that you need:

    Turn On or Off Hyper-V Enhanced Session Mode in Windows 10

    Please do let me know if you have any additional questions.
      My Computers
    Quote Quote

  4. NavyLCDR
    Posts : 18,432
    Windows 11 Pro
       New #3

    hsehestedt said:
    There are a few ways you could go about this.

    1) You could share the drives on your physical machine and simply connect to those drives my mapping them just as you would connect to any drive over the network.
    Note that that won't work if using the default network switch in Hyper-V. The default network switch in Hyper-V will not allow you to connect to local LAN resources, only internet resources.
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

 

  Related Discussions
Hi! I would like to use an external switch with my virtual machine in Hyper-V. I would like to use my Wi-Fi adapter, but if I set it, my internet is broken. 237627 I set my external switch to use my Wi-Fi adapter. 237626
I have an external hard drive that I connect to my router and I back up important files to. But I'm reaching the external hard drive's limit of 1 TB. I was wondering if I could combine several external hard drives so they act like one HUGE MEGA...
I got this rather odd error message when trying to mount an iso from an external drive using Hyper-V. The external drive is formatted as NTFS, so the second part does not apply. The iso does mount if I copy it to an "internal" drive in...
My Windows 10 Home laptop will recognize all of my flash drives but won't recognize any of my external hard drives. They all use to show up but now they aren't. The hard drives show up in disk manager but won't show up in file explorer. I hooked...
Our Sites
Site Links
About Us
Windows 10 Forums is an independent web site and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation. "Windows 10" and related materials are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.

 © Designer Media Ltd
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:44.
Find Us




Windows 10 Forums