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How to add an external hdd?
I have a hardrive that I should add to see in a virtual win7 created by virtualbox?

See the Shared Folders part of the VM settings. Note however that sharing the root folder of any drive is nearly always a bad idea. It would be better to reserve a particular folder on that drive for the VM to access.

This is not a "Windows Guests" question: the question asked does not care what the guest OS is. Topic moved to "Using VirtualBox".

But maybe the problem is not clear...

So the task to be solved would be to make a disk that has a corrupted windows 10 install on drive C. Therefore, windovs 10 runs from another hdd.
However, the hdd in question is a 3TB. And I don't see the top 1TB. And probably not because the 3TB + program doesn't run under win10 ...

It appears to me that you have a 3TB hard drive with a failed Windows 10 OS on it. And you want this 3TB drive to appear inside a Windows 7 VM.

Is this an accurate interpretation?

What is your physical computer's OS?

That's exactly what I want!

Currently, a win10 is running on a 150GB laptop hard drive. And this is the main system.
And the crashed win10 ran on the 3 TB disk.

And all this is because only one program works under win7 with which I could make the top 1 TB of the 3TB disk visible ....
Because unfortunately my motherboard does not handle the part above 2 TB

First of all, in direct answer to your original question, it is never a normal thing to attach physical hardware to a virtual machine. Yes there are ways to attach physical drives, but it requires expert knowledge and there are many dangerous pitfalls, I would not recommend that you even try it.

The best solution is to image the drive using Disk2VHD or a similar tool, i.e. convert it to a virtual image. The virtual windows image can then be mounted in any VM whose guest OS supports NTFS.

mpack wrote:Note however that sharing the root folder of any drive is nearly always a bad idea. It would be better to reserve a particular folder on that drive for the VM to access.

Why is sharing the root of a drive a bad idea? What problems occur?

JustinH, that's a good question for a web-search, as it's common advice for computers in general, not just in Virtualbox.

oh no one has any idea to solve the problem?