OT: Setting up a virtual disk - Was: Re: [AccessD] Setting up aram disk

Shamil Salakhetdinov shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru
Sat Apr 26 11:12:07 CDT 2003


Gustav,

I'm not sure that these virtual CDs(first three URLs below) are what I'm
looking for but I've to check that.

What I wanted is:

- create a file say 500MB;
- assign a drive letter to this file;
- let/force ms windows to treat this file as a 500MB hard drive - a virtual
500MB hard-drive;
- be able to dynamically(i.e. without reboot) create, format, use(copy files
on it, delete/move files from it etc.) and delete such virtual hard drives.
I.e. this virtual drive(500MB file) should have internally the same file
structure as a real physical 500MB hard drive or 500MB partition of a
physical hard drive...

Shamil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Setting up a virtual disk - Was: Re: [AccessD] Setting up
aram disk


> Hi Shamil
>
> Something like this:
>
>   http://shop.store.yahoo.com/software-blowouts/vidr7de.html
>
> or these:
>
>   http://www.nullsoft.ru/other/virtual.htm
>
> or this (buyware):
>
>
http://www.counterpoint-mtc.co.uk/it/it_store/network_effect/virtual_drive7.
htm
>
> or an alternative true low-tech approach using subst:
>
>   http://www.j-a-associates.com/vdc.htm
>
> /gustav
>
>
> > It's Friday - and I wanted to have a virtual disk - something like:
>
> > -  create a file;
> > - assign a logical drive letter to it;
> > - use this virtual(/logical) drive as if it were a real disk i.e. format
it,
> > create a file system (FAT or NTFS) on it, directory structure, files
etc.
>
> > RAMDisk from Q257405 isn't good choice for my wish because I wanted to
have
> > as big as possible virtual disk - limited to the size of the drive on
which
> > its file will be located...
>
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