I have submitted such question some time ago, but somehow I could not find any solution to my problem.
have 2 vm with w98se as guest , (VM Workstation 6)
Both have second harddrive but those harddrives never show up in w98 explorer or can be otherwise used by the guest.
When I look into the device manager, the second drive is here, the icon
on the bottom of the VMware shows the drive being active and used, but
no drive letter is assigned and the drive will not appear in the
windows explorer and files and so on can not be saved to it.
I experimented and only way I could make the drive visible was to
declare it in device manager as removable. Then I was allowed to assign
a drive letter to it and use it. However it can not be used completely,
since certain usage is prohibited apparently by windows guest, for
example such removable drive can not be used for storage of any system
folders like Mydocuments etc.
The drive is formated, has so far extended partition on it and one logical drive, about the same way as one would do it on a hardware PC. I can use the drive partialy, store data to it and retrieve it, but usage of removable media is restricted by windows, so it is not so big use, I would like to have normal drive there.
Any idea why drives do not show up in windows guest? And why they show only when removable?
