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Questions tagged [virtual-drive]

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How do you mount a directory as a drive in Windows 7?

I have a directory on another drive that I want to show as a new virtual drive. How can I do that?
user11955
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How do I convert a VDI HDD to a VHD file?

Is there a way to convert a VDI HDD to a VHD?
IT_07
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Tool to mount a zip/rar/* archive as a Win drive and be able to read/write as a normal device?

I'm looking for some tool that, given a zip/rar/tar/* archive file, mounts it as a new Windows drive. Some tools are WinMount or WinArchive, but I need one that allows me to write/create/delete files as well as read. That is, just as if it were a…
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How do you extract/install from an .iso file?

I've downloaded an .iso file but don't have a DVD writer at the moment - is there a recommended Virtual DVD drive that I can use to install from the .iso file?
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Can I setup a software RAID in Windows 7 using Virtual Hard Disks?

Well, the title of my question pretty much sums it up, but let me elaborate. The main idea of what I want to do is as follows: 1) I have two separate hard disks, with nearly equal performance. I use them as "basic" discs (contrast to "windows…
nightingale
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Is there a tool to convert VHD images to VDI images?

I saw the response for converting VDI images into VHD images, but I want to do the opposite conversion - is there a tool to do this?
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European alternatives to Dropbox?

Dropbox is positively brilliant, but the data center is probably in the US somewhere. Since I'm in Europe, there's plenty of lag and a poor upload rate. Are there any similar services using data centers in Europe? I'm looking for a free plan (cirka…
Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
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Virtual CDR driver

There's plenty of software to mount an .iso image for reading, but is there anything (for Windows XP) that would do the reverse, i.e. act as an "virtual CD-R drive" so that burning onto it would result in an .iso image to be created? Like PDF…
Joonas Pulakka
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Is there a free program to emulate a DVD writer?

I have a Sony P-Series netbook (VGN-P11Z) with no optical drive. It has an option to burn recovery DVDs with an external DVD drive. I don't have an external DVD drive but would like these DVDs just in case (if I need to use them I'll have to…
matt burns
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Loading and unloading ISO files in Windows 8

I saw on one site that the new Windows 8 could load ISO images without the help of other programs. Is Windows 8 creating a new drive for every ISO? Or does it have one virtual drive to load all ISOs in? How can I know if a file is really an…
Mohd. Ismail
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How to create a virtual disk with a case-sensitive filesystem on Windows 7?

I don't care which filesystem exactly it will be, I just need the file paths to work in a case-sensitive manner. Maybe a behavior similar to a samba share on Linux box that has case-sensitivity turned on. That would be perfect, except that I need…
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where do the VMWare Workstation virtual disks get saved on the host?

I can't seem to find the virtual disks from my virtual machine. I've looked in program files, and application data... Where do they get stored by default? I don't think I put them any place special, but I have to back them up now. I am reading my…
Carson Myers
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How to mount a folder as a virtual CD or DVD drive?

I want to mount a local folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive to allow me to run a program without having the CD mounted physically. I know I could burn it to an ISO file and mount that as a virtual CD/DVD drive using Daemon Tools or similar programs,…
Tyilo
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How to mount a folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive?

As a follow-up on my question VMware Workstation 8: how to fake a bootable USB stick? How can I mount a Windows folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive? That way, I could mount the folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive on my host system, then use that CD/DVD…
Jeroen Wiert Pluimers
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Is there a way to mount a writable disc in a virtual device/drive?

Is there a way to mount a writable disc/image on a virtual drive(e.g. daemon tools)? This is for either Windows XP or Windows 7. The goal being to write a disc directly to an ISO from software that only sees physical and virtual optical devices.…
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