How to create a virtual disk

How to create a virtual disk. To use the virtual disk have resorted to many PC users. Reasons to use virtual disks can be many, so count them all just makes no sense. And the question now is completely different: how to create a virtual drive?Before in more detail tell about creating virtual drives, it should be noted that under the same name are a little different. Some users want to create a virtual drive, the other is the virtual hard disk. Their purpose, naturally, miscellaneous. Why create them in different ways. How to create a virtual disk: virtual drive very often in the network can download the disk image, for example, any game. Of course, the download is only half the battle. Now the toy should still run. Here all have two ways: to burn the image to DVD, or use the virtual disk. Using the last game will start as from the disc. In this case it will always be stored on the computer. Agree that it is very convenient. Also read how to create disk image? Create a virtual drive is very easy, but it requires a certain program. At the moment there are too many different free programs. The most popular among them was Daemon Tools.
Daemon Tools is a free emulator with D/DVD, which supports many systems of protection. Using a c D/DVD Daemon Tools can emulate as conventional discs and discs with protection type Laserlock, Securom, BACKUPcopies. If you are the only goal to create a second virtual drives from which you will run the various disks, then this program will be very convenient for you.
Another very popular program for creating virtual drive is Alcohol 120%. But it is worth considering that this program fee. Of course, to evaluate all the features developers give use a program for free for a certain period. Then, naturally, you must purchase a license. The main difference between Alcohol 120% from Daemon Tools in functionality. Alcohol 120% enables you to create and use 31 image simultaneously. This provides a much higher data transfer rate than the ordinary drive. Also, Alcohol 120% is good because it can create disk images myself, but Daemon uses only existing.
How to create a virtual disk: virtual hard disk
Virtual hard disk may be useful if you want to store the data in a single file image. To open an image file needed program visualization and virtual machines. Well, in Windows 7 is everything you need to create such disk! And another virtual hard disk you can use to put it on another OS.
So, how to create a virtual hard disk for Windows 7? To create a virtual disk, you will not go very much time. For a start, in the start menu search box, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter. You will see the "disk management". In the menu "action", select the option "Create virtual hard disk".
Now you should choose a place where will be your virtual hard drive ("Overview"). After choosing a location, click Save. Also you need to set the capacity of the virtual disk. Everything here will already be at your discretion. But don't forget that you can assign the format the virtual hard disk. Dynamic extension gives you the ability to increase the capacity of the virtual disk as you add and save the data. And here's a fixed size will not give you to increase the capacity of the disk. Click OK and now you just have to wait until Windows itself will create a virtual drive. It will automatically montovanij, so immediately after its creation, you will see it in the list of all drives that are installed in the system.
But this is not all. To start using disk, you will need it to initialize and create the partition. To initialize the disk, open the control panel-administration-> > computer management. In the left menu of the console, select disk management. Select the disk you want to initialize. In the window, initialize disks, select the disk, also mark the Main boot record (MBR) and click OK. Now wait until the end of initialization.
So you can see your drive and use it after initialization, you must create a volume (partition). Right-click on the ìnìcìalìzovanoï disk and choose "create a simple volume." You will see the new simple volume Wizard. Click next and specify the partition size in megabytes. The next step is to assign a drive letter. Click next and then choose formatting options so (NTFS recommended). In the next window the wizard check all input parameters and click Finish. Now your virtual hard disk is ready for use.