The new Mware version I got does not give me the option to specify which drive I want to scan, it just proceeds with scanning. Is there an option to choose the drive I want to scan, and if not, where can I download the older version, since it had that option?
You’re probably talking about VmWare …
VMware Workstation virtual machines can use up to four IDE devices and up to seven SCSI devices. Any of these devices can be a virtual hard disk or DVD or CD-ROM drive. A virtual machine can read data from a DVD-ROM disc.
Adding Virtual Disks to a Virtual Machine
Virtual disks are stored as files on the host computer or on a network file server. It does not matter whether the physical disk that holds the files is IDE or SCSI. A virtual IDE drive can be stored on an IDE drive or on a SCSI drive. So can a virtual SCSI drive.
Use the virtual machine settings editor ( VM > Settings ) to add a new virtual disk to your virtual machine. The virtual machine should be powered off before you begin. If it is not, shut down the guest operating system normally, then click Power Off on the VMware Workstation toolbar.
Note: If you have a Windows NT 4.0 guest with a SCSI virtual disk, you cannot add both an additional SCSI disk and an IDE disk to the configuration.
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Open the virtual machine settings editor ( VM > Settings ) and click Add . The Add Hardware Wizard guides you through the steps to create your virtual disk.
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Click Hard Disk , then click Next .
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Select Create a New Virtual Disk , then click Next .
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Choose whether you want the virtual disk to be an IDE disk or a SCSI disk.
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Set the capacity for the new virtual disk.If you wish, select Allocate all disk space now .Allocating all the space at the time you create the virtual disk gives somewhat better performance, but it requires as much disk space as the size you specify for the virtual disk.If you do not select this option, the virtual disk’s files start small and grow as needed, but they can never grow larger than the size you set here.You can set a size between 2GB and 256GB for a SCSI virtual disk or 128GB for an IDE virtual disk. The default is 4GB.You may also specify whether you want the virtual disk created as one large file or split into a set of 2GB files. You should split your virtual disk if it is stored on a FAT32 file system.
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Accept the default filename and location for the virtual disk file or change it, if you want to use a different name or location. To find a different folder, click Browse .If you want to specify a device node for your virtual disk, click Advanced .On the advanced settings screen, you can also specify a disk mode. This is useful in certain special-purpose configurations in which you want to exclude disks from the snapshot. For more information on the snapshot feature, see Using the Snapshot.Normal disks are included in the snapshot. In most cases, this is the setting you want — with Independent deselected.Independent disks are not included in the snapshot. If you select Independent , you have the following options:
- Persistent — changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk.
- Nonpersistent — changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to the snapshot.When you have set the filename and location you want to use and have made any selections you want to make on the advanced settings screen, click Finish .
- The wizard creates the new virtual disk. It appears to your guest operating system as a new, blank hard disk. Use the guest operating system’s tools to partition and format the new drive for use.
Adding Raw Disks to a Virtual Machine
Use the virtual machine settings editor ( VM > Settings ) to add a new raw disk to your virtual machine. The virtual machine should be powered off before you begin. If it is not, shut down the guest operating system normally, then click Power Off on the VMware Workstation toolbar.
Caution: Raw disks are an advanced feature and should be configured only by expert users.
- Open the virtual machine settings editor ( VM > Settings ) and click Add . The Add Hardware Wizard guides you through the steps to create your virtual disk.
2.Click Hard Disk , then click Next
3.Select Use a physical disk , then click Next
4.Choose the physical hard disk to use from the drop-down list. Select whether you want to use the entire disk or use only individual partitions on the disk. Click Next .
5.If you selected Use individual partitions in the previous step, select which partitions you want to use in the virtual machine. If you selected Use entire disk , this step does not appear.
Only the partitions you select in this step are visible to the virtual machine. All other partitions are hidden from it.
Click Next .
6.Accept the default filename and location for the file that stores access information for this raw disk — or change it, if you want to use a different name or location. To find a different directory, click Browse .
Click Advanced if you want to specify the virtual machine SCSI or IDE device node to which this disk is connected.
On the advanced settings screen, you can also specify a disk mode.
- Normal disks are included in the snapshot. In most cases, this is the setting you want — with Independent deselected.Independent disks are not included in the snapshot. If you select Independent , you have the following options:
- Persistent — changes are immediately and permanently written to the disk.
- Nonpersistent — changes to the disk are discarded when you power off or revert to the snapshot.When you have set the filename and location you want to use and have made any selections you want to make on the advanced settings screen, click Finish .
- The wizard configures the new raw disk. If the partitions used on the raw disk are not formatted for your guest operating system, use the guest operating system’s tools to format them.
Note: After you create a raw disk using one or more partitions on a physical disk, you should never modify the partition tables by running fdisk or a similar utility in the guest operating system.
Note: If you use fdisk or a similar utility on the host operating system to modify the partition table of the physical disk, you must recreate the virtual machine’s raw disk.
Hello @Damian
You can right click on drive, which you want to scan and then you will get the option to scan the drive.
and you can use full scan also.
Hi @Damian,
First can you please clarify you are talking about Malwarebytes or VMware? Since you have chosen the category as Malware and viruses I assume it a Malwarebytes.
For that, you need to use the custom scan option follow the below steps to scan your specific drive using custom scan option:
From the Malwarebytes home screen, click the “Scan” button, second from left at the top.
Choose “Custom Scan” in the middle, and then click “Configure Scan”
Select all 4 types of scanning options on the left, then select all your drives on the right, and then “Scan Now”.
I hope I am right.
