Creating a Virtual Hard Disk on Windows 7

Creating a Virtual Hard Disk on Windows 7

We are ging to see how to create a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) in Windows 7

• Start the Computer Management (start -> Run -> compmgmt.msc)
• Right Click on the Disk Managment
• Select the Create VHD on the list
• You will prompt a dialog box
• In the location text box you can browse and give a place to save the VHD file with any name (Ex:- C:\myhard.vhd )
• Under the Virtual Hard disk Size specify the size for your VHD
• Under the virtual Hard disk format you have two options
• Dynamicaly expanding and Fixed size
• In this case select the fixed size
• Click OK
• Now if you go to the place you save the VHD file you can confirm the creation (C:\myhard.vhd)
• Now go to the disk management in the Computer management
• you can see your new disk with unalocated space (with lifght blue icone)
• Now you can Right click on the left side of the disk and select initialize Disk
• when you Initialize it you have two options as
• MBR and GPT
• In this case select the MBR
• Then Right click on the unalocated space and select Create a simple volume
• You will get a dialog box
• in this step specify the details like size ,Drive ltter,File system and finaly Format it
• after finish these steps you can go Computer and see the disk you created as a normal Disk Drive
• You can use it to store data also to install another operating system even.

Do and enjoy it

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