Sometimes you may want to install applications or store files outside the C: drive. This will require a second and even a third hard drive to be configured on the virtual machine and you can start using these drives as the backup drives. In this video, I will show you How to Add Another Hard Drive to a Virtual Machine in HyperV.




What you will learn:
1. How to add another drive to the Devices and Drives section
2. Add a Second Hard Drive to a Virtual Machine in HyperV
a. How to Open the Hyper-V Manager
b. How to add new hard disk in your virtual machine
c. How to choose VHDX disk format
d. How to choose the disk type
e. How to create another virtual hard disk with a Fixed size that comes with better performance and high levels of disk activity
f. How to Specify the name of the virtual hard disk and also the location the disk file will be saved
3. Configure Disk
a. How to configure the disk
b. How to create a blank virtual hard disk or copy from another physical disk or virtual hard disk
c. How to select the new blank virtual hard disk option and set the hard disk size
d. How to create a new virtual hard disk
4. HyperV Settings
a. How to create virtual hard disk successfully
b. How to add hard drive
5. Disk Management
a. How to find the Virtual Hard Disk added
b. How to configure the unallocated disk first from the Disk Management
c. How to see the Unknown and Unallocated Disk
d. How to Initialize Disk
e. How to set the disk to Online
f. How to create a New Simple Volume
g. How to Specify the Volume Size that your physical server can accommodate
6. Labelling Drive
a. How to assign a drive letter
b. How to make the unallocated disk accessible





























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