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Geek Speak / How do you make a virtual hard drive (VHD)?
« on: 21/05/2015 01:30:01 »
As a kid I often mess up my computer by doing things with games and messing around with my computer.
When downloading things you may acquire a virus to your hard drive (obviously)!
A virtual disk drive, however in a way negates this. Anything that infects the virtual drive will not make it's way to hard drive.
here is how to make it:
Right click on my computer, and click manage. Once on computer management screen click on disk management, then action, click on create a vhd. click dynamically moving if you want it to change size as you add files, or fixed if you want it to stay a certain size. IN disk management you will see it as unallocated. right click and select initialize, in the initialize box make sure to press MBR, this allows unlimited partitions. Select new volume and the wizard comes up, just complete the wizard. Choose a size between maximum and minimum. Then assign it a drive letter not in use. format the drive NTFs, then pick between quick format and file compression. click finish and now you have a virtual drive.
Hope this helps!
When downloading things you may acquire a virus to your hard drive (obviously)!
A virtual disk drive, however in a way negates this. Anything that infects the virtual drive will not make it's way to hard drive.
here is how to make it:
Right click on my computer, and click manage. Once on computer management screen click on disk management, then action, click on create a vhd. click dynamically moving if you want it to change size as you add files, or fixed if you want it to stay a certain size. IN disk management you will see it as unallocated. right click and select initialize, in the initialize box make sure to press MBR, this allows unlimited partitions. Select new volume and the wizard comes up, just complete the wizard. Choose a size between maximum and minimum. Then assign it a drive letter not in use. format the drive NTFs, then pick between quick format and file compression. click finish and now you have a virtual drive.
Hope this helps!