How do I access virtual "Hard Disk 2"?

I have created a new virtual machine. I have a initially created a Parent drive and set it as READ ONLY. In my new VM I created Hard Disk 1 as a Differencing disk that references the parent drive. I created Hard Disk 2 as a Dynamic Disk. When I launch
the machine I only have the single virtual "C" drive available. I was expecting another drive to be available. How do I access Hard Disk 2 - or am I not understanding the purpose of the additional hard disks?

Have you gone into Disk Manager and initialized the drive?  When you create a new VHD, it's just a blank virtual hard disk. You need to initialize, partition, and format it before it's usable in Windows.

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