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What happens if an external hard drive that is part of a set of spanned discs in windows is powered off?
Does anyone know what would happen if an external hard drive that was part of a set of spanned discs was powered off whilst the computer was running? Also what would happen if it was turned off before ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to create a file-encapsulated virtual hard drive on Windows XP?
I seek to create a virtual hard drive which will be readable and writable (by the host OS, not by a VirtualMachine) as an ordinary hard drive while being stored as a single file (or a pair, maybe) on ...
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Mount Ubuntu .disk file as Virtual Drive on Windows
I installed Ubuntu "on" Windows Vista using the Wubi installer.
The Ubuntu "disk" files are located in C:\ubuntu\disks\. (So, there's a large 30GB .disk file in that directory.)
How can I "mount" it ...
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make data backup server and provide virtual drives to users [closed]
Hi
I want to setup a windows 2003 server with following features:
data backup service with automatic synchronization
virtual drives for each user
data security (means no one can delete files once ...
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creating compressed iso image file
I want to create a compressed ISO image file and mount that file to one of the virtual drives and access the content (read-only) without worrying about manual decompression/extraction.
For Windows and ...
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Is there a Windows equivalent to Remote Disc?
So obviously almost 3/5 of laptops sold today come without CD drives, mine being one of them. My dad wants to watch DVDs and install Office '07 however, and he won't pay a hundred dollars for an ...
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Is there any virtual drive for Windows that supports compression?
I refer to mount it under Windows 7.
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Set up auto-mounting virtual CD drives on Windows 7?
How can I set up Windows 7 to auto-mount CD images as needed?
I have a bunch of old games on CD (eg. Starcraft Broodwar) that I have ripped to ISO or IMG/CDD files. Until recently, I used Daemon ...
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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 ...
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Use same Ubuntu install in physical or virtual machine
I'm planning to install Windows 7 x64 soon. I'm planning also run Ubuntu. I wish to use Ubuntu for developing, and for doing live music.
I'd like to be able boot directly into Ubuntu for live ...
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How do I associate an image file to Magic Disc
I am using Windows Vista and Magic Disc. Everytime I double click an ISO I want it to be mounted via Magic Disc. Is this possible? Defining a file association via the CP just spawns a new instance of ...
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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 ...
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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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Virtual DVD writer
my laptop does not have a DVD driver at all. But I'd like to convert my video to a DVD format (e.g. Video_TS and Audio_TS). Is there a Virtual DVD writer out there that can pretend to be a DVD+R or ...
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vm fusion only allows 40gb drive for windows7, can I create another drive?
When installing w7 on my macbookpro using fusion, it says 40gb maximum size for the vm drive.
can I create another drive and link it to the vm?
Also, can I change the memory allocated, it default to ...
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VMware Workstation has terrible performance on local hard disk
I'm working on vmware image files. My computer always load hard disk and vmware works very slow at the same time.
Guest OS: Windows XP SP2
Host OS: Windows XP SP2
Is there any way can improve the ...
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Why do disk images hosted on a read-only HFS+ partition behave differently?
I have come across the following phenomenon and would like to know how leaky Windows' file system abstraction is or if there's something else involved.
I partitioned the hard disk of my MacBook Pro ...
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Daemon Tools Lite Error- Unable to add adapter
I just got a ThinkPad T510 with Windows 7 Professional and I installed Daemon Tools Lite, but I keep getting an error when I run it:
Unable to add adapter.
I can't load iso images, because ...
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VMware, Ubuntu emulator on Mac: strange “free space” information
I'm using an Ubuntu emulator (VMware) on a Macbook.
My Mac says 3 GB free, while my Ubuntu emulator says 16 GB free.
I am wondering if my Ubuntu installation is "reserving" those 16gb, or it is just ...
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how to restore files deleted in the Mapping virtual drive
I used psubst drive1: drive2:path /P to create the persistent virtual drive, I found that's greate, but when I delete files in those drives, they didn't appeared in the Recycle Bin, so How can I ...
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Mount VHD In Ubuntu
How would one go about mount a VHD created a something like Disc2VHD in ubuntu , try the usual mount commands but cant seem to get it going
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Trying to run QEMU with a file as hda
I'm trying to run QEMU and use a simple file on the host system as the guest's hard drive. Here's what I attempted so far:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/felix/vm/archlinux.img bs=1MB count=8192
8192+0 ...
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I would like to burn a file to a virtual dvd
a program I am using tracks down my diskdrives and offers to write a dvd image to them. I would like to be able to write this image on HD in stead of on disk, but I have no option to browse the file ...
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Can't remove file using Truecrypt 6.3a in Windows 7
I am using Truecrypt 6.3a in Windows 7,
but cannot remove file, just read only.
When I create a virtual hard disk in Windows 7 using Truecrypt 6.3a (support Windows 7), but in the virtual hard disk I ...
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Creating Acer Recovery DVD to ISO - No Optical Drive [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Virtual CDR driver
I have an acer travelmate laptop that i'm trying to create the recovery dvd(s) for.
I am stuck at this screen:
This machine doesn't have an optical ...
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Virtual Machines Renaming/Backing up/Sharing
I've started using VMware virtual machines for all of my software development projects and have a few questions for others doing the same thing.
First, how can you rename the virtual machine and the ...
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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 ...
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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?
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How do you create a VHD in Windows Virtual PC (Win 7) that is linked to a real physical drive?
I know that you can create a Virtual HD in Virtual PC that is linked to a physical drive so it's not compressed, runs faster, etc.
I'm now using Windows 7 and I don't see any way to create such a ...
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Looking for a free or open-source burner emulator [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Virtual CDR driver
I am looking for a free or open-source virtual CD/DVD emulator to run in a Windows environment.
What I want is similar to what SlySoft's Virtual Clone ...
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Defragment a file or folder? Windows 7
Is there a built-in way to defragment a folder? I am using VM Player so I would like my 3 GB disk image to be defragmented if possible. FYI my disk partition that the image lies in has 12 GB left and ...
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Mounting an FTP as a virtual disk (FTPDrive analogue
FTPDrive has been a great utility for me, but it does not support 64bit Windows 7.
The feature of FTPDrive that is useful for me is accesing files from an FTP as local files without pre-downloading ...
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How does a hard drive compare to Flash memory working as a hard drive in terms of speed?
Some experiment I did with hard drive read/write speed was 10MB/s write and 40MB/s read, and with a USB Flash drive, it can be 5MB/s write and 10MB/s read.
Also, if I put a virtual hard drive .vhd ...
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Is there software that will allow me to mount a bootable USB stick as a DVD drive?
I have made a bootable USB stick which successfully installs Windows 7.
I'd also like to use it with VM Ware, which only recognises DVD drives.
Can I mount my bootable USB drive to emulate being a ...
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Free Virtual Drive Software [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Free Windows ISO Mounting Software
Are there any other free virtual drive creation software? Daemon tools was good, but it has become a nagware
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Is there any way to stream disc images (ISO's) from one computer to another?
To start - I do not mean videos/DVD's, and I do not have Windows file sharing set up (and to be honest, am looking for a solution involving a program that I could maybe start and stop fully).
On my ...
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Virtual disk with “undo support” for testing?
To speed up my testing, I need to prepare a disk with some files, do some operations on disk (modify files, create new files...), and return back to clean state (before doing operations) quickly. I ...
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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, ...
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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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Create netbook recovery image without DVD burner (virtual burner?) [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for a free or open-source burner emulator
I have a new Acer Aspire One which is asking to create a recovery DVD. It doesn't have a built in burner, and I don't ...
