How to create a virtual drive in your PC.
What happen if you get a free 250GB or more
hard disk…I will be very happy.
But now you don’t need to purchase a very
expensive hard drive. Microsoft provide us free hard drive.
So let’s unveil this secret.
1.Click Start, type diskmgmt.msc in the Search
box, and then press ENTER
2.Select Create VHD from
the Action menu.
3. Click OK to create theVHD.
4. Now you will see a “create
and attach virtual hard disk” window
You can change the size of virtual hard disk from MB to GB
or TB
There are two main types of virtual hard disks: fixed-size
and dynamically expanding. Both types have a maximum size value that specifies
how large the disk will appear to virtual machines. However, fixed-size VHDs
will automatically take up the specified amount of physical disk space on the
host computer's file system, whereas dynamically expanding disks will allocate
space only as needed.
VHD volumes have a maximum size of 2040GB (nearly 2TB). This
applies to any type of VHD, including dynamic, fixed, and differencing disks.
In Disk Management you will see the virtual drive listed as
unallocated space.
To begin using it you’ll need to Right-click and select
Initialize Disk.
In the initialize disk box just keep MBR selected and hit
OK.
Create a Volume
Now it is time to create a volume by Right-clicking the unallocated space
and select New Simple Volume.
The New Simple Volume Wizard starts up and it’s just a
matter of completing it.
Choose the amount of space you want to use for the volume.
Assign it a dive letter that is not currently being used
Format the new volume as NTFS, FAT32, or FAT. Check if you
want a quick format and file compression.
The wizard is complete, click on Finish
If you have AutoPlay enabled it should pop up for you to
open up your new virtual hard disk.
It will be listed with the other disks in Disk Management.
Of course you will also see it listen under My Computer
This is a cool new feature that will let you
use the disk as you would any type of real disk. You can encrypt it, share it
out to other systems, store files to it…however you would use an extra disk
connected to your system.
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