Windows 7 Virtual Hard Drive
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With Windows 7's Virtual Hard Drive, you can create disk images
without the need for 3rd party programs like Windows Virtual PC |
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1. | Right click on My Computer |
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2. | Select Manage |
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3. | Select Disk Managment |
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4. | Click on Action / Create VHD |
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5. | Set the Location, Size and Type of Virtual
Hard drive you want to create |
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6. | This simple creates the file that will
be used for your Virtual Hard Drive |
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7. | To attach to that file, click on Action
/ Attach VHD, and Browse to the file you just created |
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8. | To initialize the disk, right click on
the appropriate Disk # and select Initialize Disk |
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9. | Confirm the Disk # and select the style
you want |
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10. | From here you can format the drive as
you would a regular hard drive |
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11. | Right click on the Unallocated space
and select New Simple Volume. Assign the size |
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12, | Assign the Drive Letter, whether
you want to format with NTFS, and the label |
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13. | Now you will see the new Virtual
Drive as a new drive letter |
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