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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?

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

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.