Format new virtual disk

[ggrodsky]

This has to be discussed somewhere, but I cannot find it. I am running version 2.2.4 on a Win XP host and a Win XP guest. I ran out of disk space in my client, so I created a new "data" virtual disk and attached is as a IDE Primary Slave to the client virtual machine. I booted the guest OS and can see the new drive in the device manager, but not in the file manager. In the past, when I added a new disk drive to a PC, the drive vendor supplied a program to format the new drive. I can't find instructions for formatting a new drive anywhere. How do I format the new virtual drive to make it available in my guest PC?

[Perryg]

Use the disk manager that is in the device manager to mount the volume and format it.

[webpap]

if your new partition is coming-up as "unallocated" in the disk manager use [DiskPart.exe] from the cmd-line

SELECT DISK 1
DETAIL DISK
DETAIL PARTITION
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
EXIT

then switch back to the desk manager, should be allocated now... click right to format etc.