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I have a host system Windows 10 Pro (system information) and I got an external HD (devices and printers) with a virtual machine image of a Linux based server side OS.

I need to open/boot a virtual machine from the images placed on the external HD on my host device with Windows 10. For this purpose I downloaded and installed VirtualBox, but I don't know how to open/boot a virtual machine from an image placed on this external HD via this software. I have trouble with this, because one the one hand I am not able to import a virtual appliance, because no external HD is listed (import virtual appliance dialog) and on the other hand I am also not able to view this HD with the Explorer in order to look what is inside like a regular usb flash drive (devices and drivers).

So my question is how to mount this external HD and to open/boot a virtual machine from it via VirtualBox?

I addition I can mention that there is no restriction to use VirtualBox. That was my first choice to get started.

Edit: I got this HD with the information that there are two images of an OS of a Linux based server where I can deploy my software for testing purposes. But there are some trouble to mount this external HD (A SS. of disk management)

Dawid
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    Are you sure it's a disk with an image, rather than a proper boot disk? Please provide a screenshot of _Disk Management_ (right-click the Start button → _Disk Management_). – gronostaj Oct 22 '20 at 13:41
  • I got this HD with the information that there are two images of an OS of a linux based server where I can deploy my software for testing purposes. I added a SS. of disk management in my question. – Dawid Oct 22 '20 at 14:48
  • Are you able to assign a drive letter to it through disk management? No drive letter? No mounting and using a drive in windows. Also, VirtualBox is just fine. I have to wonder about the partition type too.. disk manager isn't showing us much. – Señor CMasMas Oct 22 '20 at 15:38
  • I am not able to assign a drive letter to it through disk management. I updated the screen shot of the disk management where you can see that the context menu option for assigning a drive letter is disabled. How I should interpreted this issue? Is the HD defect and/or is Windows the wrong host system? – Dawid Oct 22 '20 at 16:51
  • ext4 filesystem maybe? Try [these](https://superuser.com/questions/37512/how-to-read-ext4-partitions-on-windows). – gronostaj Oct 23 '20 at 05:33

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