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Hello there.

My situation is as follows: I have 2 SATA disks which once were a (software) RAID-1 array on a Linux physical host. Now the hardware has gone, but the disks are still there. Thus I installed Ubuntu on a VirtualBox VM and attached one of my ex-RAID-1-HDD to the eSATA of my laptop. My question is now: Windows 8 is seeing the disk in the Device Manager, but I don't know how to get it mounted in Ubuntu VM. How do I achieve this?

Kind regards,
F.

Use Shared Folders. For Details read the User Manual.

stefan.becker wrote:Use Shared Folders. For Details read the User Manual.

Hallo Stefan.

How would I be able to mount from within the VM (Linux) a filesystem (ext3) which is not mounted on the underlying Windows 8?

F.

That is really a problem, you are right.

In VBOX there is the possibilitie for native disk access. I have not checked this, maybe this works for you. Details as before in the manual.

stefan.becker wrote:That is really a problem, you are right.

In VBOX there is the possibilitie for native disk access. I have not checked this, maybe this works for you. Details as before in the manual.

What do you think: would it work if I boot my laptop with an UBUNTU Live CD/USB while having the eSATA disk connected?

F.

If you mean starting the pc with a live cd: Yes.