Create virtual disk partitions in Windows 7

I believe many of my friends have played Microsoft's virtual machine (VPC) before. In Windows 7, Microsoft used it as the system's built-in file, the virtual disk file. The virtual disk file uses VHD (Microsoft Virtual Machine VPC). File format) file, which means that it can directly read the files created by Microsoft Virtual Machine VPC, which is very convenient. Let's take a look at how to create a VHD virtual partition.

1. Create VHD file
Let's create a virtual disk first. When creating, right click on “Computer” and select ““Admin” in the pop-up context menu. In the “Computer Management” interface that opens, Click “ Disk Management& quo; to enter the disk management interface.
Tip: Enter diskmgmt.msc in the “Run” dialog box to open the “Disk Management” dialog box.
In the "Disk Management" window, click the "Operation"→“Create VHD" command in the menu to open the “Create and Attach Virtual Disk Wizard” dialog box. Enter the location where the virtual disk file is saved here to save the file to a larger partition. Then enter the capacity of the virtual disk in "virtual disk size", where we can enter as needed. Next we see two single options below the dialog.
Where the "Fixed size" item indicates that the virtual disk is set to use a fixed amount of space, and "Dynamically expanding" is dynamically adjusted according to the saved data. After the setting is completed, click “OK">; The system automatically completes the creation of the virtual disk. After

2. Annex VHD file
virtual disk creation, we have the following in Disk Administrator its accessories. When it is attached, click the <quo;Operation”→“Add VHD” command in the Disk Manager menu, open the “Add Virtual Hard Disk” dialog box, click the Browse button to select the VHD file you just created, click OK to add the virtual disk to “Disk Manager>, shown here as Disk 1.
At this point the virtual disk can not be used, like the physical hard disk, we need to partition, format and other settings before use. Right-click on the drive and select the “New Simple Volume” command to bring up the Disk Partition Wizard, where we can partition the virtual disk as needed. After the partition is complete, we see the new disk partition of the program in Disk Manager.
These two partitions are VHD disk partitions. In the future, we can directly partition operations in “My Computer". After the VHD virtual partition is created, copy the VHP virtual machine files to the partition and we can use it directly.

3.VHD close the file and delete
when using the virtual disk, we can temporarily shut down the virtual disk as needed. In operation, right click on "Disk Manager" in the "Virtual Disk" icon to select "Offline", so that "virtual disk" can not be accessed in the "Resource Manager" The partition created by the virtual disk. In the future, we only need to right-click "virtual disk" in the "Disk Manager" "Virtual Disk" to select "Online", which can be accessed in the Explorer.
In the "Disk Manager" also provides a "virtual disk" "VHD file" separation function, through the separation function we can remove the virtual disk from the disk manager, so you can not use VHD files, Until then, reattach the VHD file. When separating VHD files, select the virtual disk icon in Disk Manager and right click to select “Separate VHD”; pop up the separate virtual hard disk wizard, if you check “delete the virtual hard disk file after deleting the disk”, the whole virtual disk will It is completely deleted and the data saved on this disk will also be lost.