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I can't seem to get the guest OS to show more than one hard drive. I've tried rearranging how the drives are arranged in VBox (SATA, IDE), deleting the controller and re-adding it, creating a new virtual machine, adding different types of virtual disks, and messing with various options. However, every time I boot the guest OS, only one drive is visible: C:\, regardless of guest OS used (tried XP Pro, Win 7 Pro 64-Bit). On the Linux VM, it quickly says "The disk drive for cryptswap1 is not ready yet or not present Continue to wait; or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery" then crashes before getting to the desktop, despite the fact it supposedly installed just fine. I also tried reinstalling VBox, with no change. I don't really understand what is going on, and I haven't been able to find posts where other users have the same problem, which has made it difficult to fix the problem.

Host OS is Windows 7 Pro (64 bit), i7 860, 16 gigs of ram, 60GB SSD + 1TB HDD, Nvidia GeForce GTX 570

Disk mounting on a Linux OS is different than Windows. You must create a mount point first but lets start with Windows since that is you host.

1) you add a disk in the guest settings and then boot the guest. The drive will not actually show up until you format the drive in the disk manager at which time it will assign a drive letter.

Try that and see how it goes.

Wow, really? I forgot to format the disk. I'm embarrassed.

Well, now that we've got the stupidity out of the way, it works fine. Somehow I assumed that it was already formatted when the disk was created, which doesn't make sense now that I think about it.

Don't worry about the Linux, that was also my fault.