Physical disk of the VM Win7 host access?

Is it possible to access a physical host SATA disk in the virtual machine operating system?  I don't need to install Windows on the disk physical I only need OS in the virtual machine to see the physical drive directly. The host is Win7 x 64 guest is Win7 x 86.  I saw some documents on this site, but it seems to be contradictory.   I noticed there is an option to add a physical disk, but I never got to actually do something.  So I was wondering if anyone here knows how to run?

Putting aside the question this thread mentions new possible for rawdisk workaround access under Windows 7 if your talking about access to OS system disk the host as a raw simultaneously from the VM disk, even if it were possible, corrupt you the file system, as a BONE can directly control the physical hard drive at a time.  It must therefore be a second physical disk that was not the system drive, where the virtual machine may take control of the host.

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