Remove a hard drive from a virtual computer running

Hello everyone. Is there a way to remove a hard drive from a virtual computer running? Of course we can add a disk to a computer that is incredibly convenient, but there are times that we blow an as well. When clicked on the drive in the VI Client button is grayed out delete. I would have thought that other people would want to do that as well, but looking around the net and forums I find nothing!

Its not feasible in 3.5 and below.

Haven't tried yet in 4...

-Matt

VCP, vExpert, Unix Geek

Tags: VMware

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