

In the Select Disks to Initialize window, select the newly added disk and click Next.In the introduction window, click Next.When you open the Disk Management utility, it automatically detects that a new hard disk was added to the configuration and launches the Initialize and Convert Disk wizard: In Windows XP, click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.In Windows 7, click Start > Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Computer Management Storage > Disk Management.For example, in Windows 7 and Windows XP you can access this utility by doing the following: To initialize a new virtual hard disk in a Windows guest OS, you will need the Disk Management utility available. Initializing the New Virtual Hard Disk in Windows

After you added a new blank virtual hard disk to the virtual machine configuration, it will be invisible to the operating system installed inside the virtual machine until the moment you initialize it.
