Adding physical disk failed - where I did mistake?

[MIRKOSOFT]

I unmounted drives by two scripts - both are the same, only drive is changed. Unmount was succesfull and in My Computer were not visible:

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@echo off

REM Be sure to change this to the drive letter you want to mount the drive to!
set drive=R

REM Be sure to change this to the Volume Name of the drive you want to mount!
set volume=\\?\Volume{b8af929f-559f-4a08-81d9-0f52e5cb0886}\

:start
echo Mounting Drive...
mountvol %drive%: %volume%
echo Drive R(APPS) Mounted!

pause
exit

So, I tried to create virtual disk by command and here you can see error result:

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C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename L:\APPS-FAT32.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive5 -partitions 1
VBoxManage.exe: error: Cannot open the raw disk '\\.\PhysicalDrive5': VERR_SHARING_VIOLATION
VBoxManage.exe: error: The raw disk vmdk file was not created

So, what a problem there is yet?

Thank you for help.
Miro

[Martin]

Where does your script unmount the drive?

[socratis]

Miro,
I've deleted your duplicate message. According to the forum rules, duplicate posts are not allowed. I've also merged Martin's response with the old thread that you had.

You can't unmount something that is in use. That's what the "sharing violation" message says. Is your hard drive in use? Is it the same one that you booted from maybe?

[MIRKOSOFT]

Ok, I duplicated post for one purpose only - it was looking like forgotten.

The whole harddisk has 3 partitions - no one is booting, only VIDEO partition is for adding videos, rest 2 partitions are free, no file, no in use.
I'm using 6 HDDs and this one was added for VBox physical disk adding, also only for videos - 'cause I need not so big space for VM.

Miro

[Martin]

Again: Your script is mounting the disk!
To unmount you are missing the "/d" or "/p" parameter.
https://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/lib ... s.11).aspx

[MIRKOSOFT]

Oh, I'm sorry - I swapped code, here's unmouting code:

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@echo off

REM Be sure to change this to the drive you want to unmount! 
set drive=R:

echo Unmounting Drive...
mountvol %drive% /p
echo Drive R(APPS) Unmounted!

pause
exit

Please forgive me my mistake.
Miro

[MIRKOSOFT]

Please can anybody help me?

Miro

[mpack]

Please can anybody help me?

My policy is not to help anyone use the raw disk feature, and I believe many other mods and volunteers feel the same way. As mentioned in the manual, using raw disks is an experts-only feature, because inexpert use could result in the total destruction of data on the host drive. One of the signs of an expert is that the description in the user manual should be perfectly adequate for understanding the feature.

[MIRKOSOFT]

OK, I understand and maybe really switch Vbox to VMware - since this installation of Windows have only problems and here I was in hope that will find help.
In other - I'm using 6 physical disks and one of them was connected for this purpose only - no data - no loss. Even I need help with unmounting partitions only.
Miro

[socratis]

Even I need help with unmounting partitions only.

Unmounting partitions is *not* a VirtualBox problem. You should be looking in Windows forums, not in VirtualBox forums. We've been saying that for the longest time!

[MIRKOSOFT]

Yes, but no one other forum got answer.

Let me be please.
Miro