How can we create a virtual hard-drive in Windows 7 and Windows 8

With the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft introduced in Windows operating systems A new feature, namely the possibility of creating virtual hard disks, which users can use to stock and hide diverse FILES. Basically, one hard disk virtual It's a fisier in format VHD on which users Windows I can mount it in the system and use it as on a hard drive fizic (It may contain partitions, leaflets and FILES). If for various reasons you want to created and you one hard drive virtual (eg, creating a VHD It offers a simple and very safe way to hide files you want to keep private) on your system Windows, you can do this by following the instructions below.

Cum cream un hard disk virtual in Windows 7 sau Windows 8/8.1?

Before creating an hard drive virtual, make sure You have enough free space on the physical HDD for it (Creating a virtual hard disk does not add additional storage space, but occupies space on physical HDD). Minimum size of one hard disk virtual it is 3 MB.

  • open Computer Management (Click-right on My Computer and select Manage Sat diskmgmt.msc in Run And give Enter) then click on Disk Management (in the left list)
  • at the top of the window, click on Action (langa File) and select Create VHD from the displayed menu
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  • then Select the location where you want to create hard disk-ul virtual (sub Location Click data Browse), choose size for it (virtual dard disk size), select format favoriteVHD or Vhdx; VHDX is recommended for virtual HADs of larger sizes 2040 GB) and Virtual HDD type (size fixed or dynamics; If you intend to use that virtual hard drive to store more files in the future, select the option Dinamically expanding To make sure you do not stay without space on it. Remember, however, as the space on the virtual HDD increases, the lower the space on the physical HDD that contains the virtual HDD)
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  • After creating the virtual hard drive, it will be displayed in Disk Management ca unallocated space; Click on the virtual disk title and select Initialize Disk From the menu, then in the displayed dialog, leave MBR selected and click on OK
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  • After the initialization of the disk, in order to be able to use the new Virtual Hard Drive, it will configured as volume and must be assigned a litera; Click-right on the newly created virtual disk and select New Simple Volume
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  • Then click on Next and select space that you want to use for disk
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  • Give it again click on Next and Select a letter for disk (not already used)
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  • Click on Next, then select Format site For the new Disk (recommended NTFS) yes give yourself a name virtual hard disk
  • Finally, click on Next, then click on Finish To complete the creation of virtual hard drive (it will be displayed both in Disk Management, as well as in My Computer)

Succes!

Remember! Hard disk-ul virtual will be attached to the system only in the current session. After restart system, anything VDH files attached to it will reattached to be able to be accessed (in order to attach a virtual hard disk to the system, go in Disk Management, click on Action and select Attach VHD).

Note: Virtual hard drives can be used including to install on-epriser systems.

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