Objective

To add two new hard disk drives to a virtual machine under Microsoft Hyper-V environment.

Prerequisites

Virtual machine with 2 hard disk drives connected to a virtual IDE Controller (IDE Controller 0 in this procedure).

Notes

All virtual machines under Microsoft Hyper-V can have up to two (2) IDE Controllers with up to two (2) devices (Hard Disk Drive or DVD Rom) connected on each controller. SCSI Controllers are not used in this procedure.

Steps

1. Open Hyper-V Manager and connect to the Host, where the virtual machine is located.

2. Right click and choose Settings on the virtual machine

3. Left click on the IDE Controller under which the existing hard drives are located

4. From the right, select Hard Drive and click Add

5. Select IDE Controller 1 – Location 0 (since IDE Controller 0 – Location 0 and Location 1 are occupied from the two Hard disk drives that already exist).

6. Click New and follow default options to create the new Hard Disk.

7. Click Finish