How to Add an IOMEGA External Hard Drive to VMware Workstation 6.5.1

VMware enables you to run multiple operating systems in a virtual environment without affecting your main one. This includes virtualizing hardware and sharing it between different VMware images. If you have an IOMEGA external hard drive it's possible for a VMware image to use it (as if it were connected to it physically). Information stored on the IOMEGA is like that of any other saved on an external drive; you can distribute it by plugging the drive into different systems.

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  Open VMware and open to an image. Make sure your external hard drive is already connected.

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  Click "Edit Virtual Machine settings" and then click "Add" under the "Hardware" tab.

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  Select "Hard Disk" and click "Next."

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  Select "Use a physical disk" and click "Next."

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  Click the "Device" dropdown menu and select your external hard drive. Now click "Next" and then "Finish." You're now back in the "Virtual Machine Settings" window; your external drive will be listed among the hardware being used. Click "OK."

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  Start your virtual machine; you'll now have access to your external hard drive.