Hello there, i hope that you
know what a virtual hard disk really is but if you don't know, I suggest that
you check out the description of this video there we have a link to the to the
article in which we describe what a virtual hard disk really is in this video I
will show you how to create and manage virtual hard disks using disk part, disk
part tool and uh. . . all the steps that you will see in this video can
be done using the disk management tool, using GUI so if you don't like command-line,
I suggest that you check out that other video so, to get started first we need
to run command-line and i will run it using run as administrator option which
will give use elevated privileges which we need to create visual hard disks I
will run disk part tool and uh. . . the first thing we need to do is
create virtual disk file, and command for that is create virtual disk, file so
we will create virtual disk in our C: drive we will save it to the C: drive the
name of the virtual disk will be temp. vhd, notice that we have to enter the
extension and the maximum size of our virtual disk will be fifteen thousand
megabytes we can also specify the type of our virtual disk which can be fixed or
expand able but if you don't specify anything, the type will be fixed I will
hit enter and this will take some time, so I will pause the video. So the
virtual disk file is successfully created and if we go to our C: drive we can
see it here, temp. VHD the next thing we need to do is select that VHD file.
To do that I will enter the following command :once the file is selected,
we need to attach it to our system so the disk is now attached but we still
cannot use it because it is not initialized, yet if we want to create a
partition or a volume on our disk, we have to initialize it, so. . . to
initialize it, I will use the following command: and after that I can create
partition on this disk so to create a partition on this disk, virtual disk, I
will enter the following command now, after that we have to format this
partition I will format it using the NTFS file system and I will label it as
temp and we will perform a quick format and before we can use it we have to assign
a drive letter to it in our case this will be end that's it. we can now work
with our virtual hard disk. Let's try it now we can also access it using
Windows Explorer here it is we can also, if you don't want to use virtual hard
disk any more on our system, we can detach it let's go back to disk part before
we can detach virtual hard disk, we have to select it again and now we can
detach it that's it
