VMWare Fusion Extra Partition

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Hi guys, I would like to know how to take an existing NTFS (internal ... not the boot camp partition .. a 2nd ntfs partition ) partition to be seen by windows when i run in vmware fusion, without copying it twice... tkxs
 

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Same problem here.
Where exactly in that post is the answer?
VMWare Fusion seems to allow only virtual hard disk files to be added as hard disks to the VM, but not already existing partitions.
 

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Solution found here :)

The trick is to use the vmware-rawdiskCreator tool for creating a raw VMWare hard disk file that points to the desired partition. Then you can add this hard disk file as secondary drive to your Virtual Machine.

NOTE: remember to uncheck the "Copy" option when adding the hard disk file, or you'll receive an error.
 

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