WIN8 system VMware Virtual machine mount hard disk Prompt "Unable to mount hard drive" failure reason and solution

WIN8 operating system VMware virtual machine to install another operating system, when the operation mounted hard disk encountered a problem, prompted the "unable to mount the hard drive", the specific phenomenon shown below.

Failure Reason analysis:

This occurs because system permissions are higher than the software's access to the physical hard disk, and the system is exclusive to the physical hard disk.

Workaround:

1, start the WIN8 system into the desktop. Move the mouse to the lower left corner of the window icon, click the right mouse button, appear icon menu, select a command prompt (administrator);

2, open the Command Prompt window;

3. Follow the diagram steps to work offline on the physical hard disk system that needs to be attached to the virtual machine.

Input DiskPart carriage return;

Enter list disk to view mounted hard drive condition

Enter select Disk 01 back to car Select 1

Enter offline disk carriage to get offline

The above is on the WIN8 system VMware virtual machine mount hard disk prompts "can not mount hard drive" failure reasons and solutions to all the contents of the introduction, follow the above steps to operate, you can resolve permissions issues, so that VMware virtual machine successfully mounted physical hard disk.