Creating a VHD:
Perform these steps to create a VHD file on your Windows 7-based computer:
1. Click Start and then right-click Computer.
2. Click Manage, then in the left pane, right-click Disk Management, and then click Create VHD.
3. Select a location to save your VHD file. Select the maximum size for your VHD file. You can also choose from either of the two options – Dynamically Expanding, where the size of the VHD expands dynamically to a fixed maximum size, or Fixed Size, where the virtual hard disk uses a fixed amount of space regardless of the size of data stored on it.
4. The new disk will show in the right pane as unallocated space. Right-click the new unallocated VHD Disk number and click Initialize Disk.
5. You need to choose if you want the new VHD to have Master Boot Record (MBR) or GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition, and click OK.
6. Right-click again on the new unallocated VHD and click New Simple Volume.
7. Type how much of the maximum disk space you want to use for this VHD partition, and click Next.
8. Select the file system for your VHD from either FAT or NTFS, and enter a name for your VHD. Select thePerform a quick format check box, and click Next.
9. Click Finish. The system creates a new simple volume on your VHD, which is already attached.
Perform these steps to create a VHD file on your Windows 7-based computer:
1. Click Start and then right-click Computer.
2. Click Manage, then in the left pane, right-click Disk Management, and then click Create VHD.
3. Select a location to save your VHD file. Select the maximum size for your VHD file. You can also choose from either of the two options – Dynamically Expanding, where the size of the VHD expands dynamically to a fixed maximum size, or Fixed Size, where the virtual hard disk uses a fixed amount of space regardless of the size of data stored on it.
4. The new disk will show in the right pane as unallocated space. Right-click the new unallocated VHD Disk number and click Initialize Disk.
5. You need to choose if you want the new VHD to have Master Boot Record (MBR) or GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition, and click OK.
6. Right-click again on the new unallocated VHD and click New Simple Volume.
7. Type how much of the maximum disk space you want to use for this VHD partition, and click Next.
8. Select the file system for your VHD from either FAT or NTFS, and enter a name for your VHD. Select thePerform a quick format check box, and click Next.
9. Click Finish. The system creates a new simple volume on your VHD, which is already attached.
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