add usb disk

Question

Hello Good, In order to add a disk to Hyper-v asks me to pass the disk to "offline" and thus be able to detect it. I enter "disk management", select the disk in question, click with the right mouse button and the "Offline" option does not appear in the drop-down menu.

Answer 1

I believe this is related to the USB disk type

you can only set offline to 'fixed' USB disk type

if your USB disk is of type 'removable' the set offline option is not available

so

• USB removable uses unmount/mount
• USB fixed (more like internal HDD/SSD) uses offline/online - hyper-v needs disk/flash disk of this type

maybee you remember it from the days of windows-to-go

some vendors offered support tools for converting the disk type for specific USB drives but this was not common feature

solution in your case would be, to use USB disk type of 'fixed'

regards