Questions tagged [virtual-drive]
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How do virtual drives and actual PC storage operate together?
Using MyCase virtual drive synced with MyCase online software, I am noticing that when I add documents to the MyCase virtual drive, it appears to allocate simultaneously in my PC's individual storage.
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How do I know which partitions I can safely remove on Windows 10?
I'm using desktop apps for Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox, which all store files on my computer.
Google Drive used a virtual drive for its file, until I changed the Google Drive streaming location ...
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Booting from a virtual disk on a virtual machine ends up in a blue screen
I took a HDD out of a dead PC (,which used to run Windows Vista) and virtualized it into vhdx using disk2VHD. After converting the VHDX to VMDK, I attached the drive to a new virtual machine on VMWare ...
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How do I redirect the virtual disk drive to open the program which requiring physical optical drive
Refer to this Q: Copy program from CD to USB but can't launch program after installation in window-10
I observed that I needed to put the CD into the physical optical drive after installation. ...
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Why is there an empty VirtualDrive folder (231 GB) in C:\ProgramFiles\Asus folder in my Asus Strix Laptop?
I was trying to make space in my C drive because it is almost always full. While checking I saw a folder in path C:\ProgramData\ASUS. The folder name is VirtualDrive. It is an empty folder(I checked &...
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Is it possible to load a VHDX virtual drive so it's seen as a removeable drive by windows?
I'm wanting to synchronise a "virtual USB drive" between computers.
Reason is, the software I use for lighting, GrandMA2 onpc, is based around the concept of a lighting console with an ...
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Is it possible to save a disk state and after that all installations and other changes to be removed on next restart without a software?
My friend is going to open a cybercafe and I was wondering how to remove all the applications/ files and other things people create on computer on restart, some recommended a tool Deep Freezer but I ...
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Are VHD's (Virtual Hard Drives) safe?
So, All I'm asking is if Virtual Hard Drives are safe. Because I needed more space and well.. My external hard-drive only has around 50GB of space (30GB taken by the system), so I'm thinking of making ...
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How to permanently assign a virtual drive letter in Windows 10?
In many applications, such as PowerISO, CyberLink Power2Go (the Virtual Drive Manager), etc. you can assign one or more fixed drive letters for virtual drives in Windows (e.g. V:\).
Because Windows ...
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Are the files opened with the photos application of Windows 10 temporary stored anywhere?
I'm saving some designs in a virtual drive with an encryption software. When the virtual drive is off, sometimes the photos can still be opened by clicking them in recent files and they are opened in ...
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Software (an old PC game) won't boot using a virtual drive, but does boot using a real drive. How come?
I have a couple of old video games—The Hobbit (2003), published by Vivendi, and Zapper: One Wicked Cricket (2002), published by Infogrames—which won't boot when mounted using a virtual drive, but they ...
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Mount virtual vfat drive to raspberry pi
I'm trying to mount virtual vfat drive to Raspberry Pi. This solution was working then we formatted the vritual vfat drive via USB OTG, now I cannot mount the drive back to pi but I can still mount ...
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Windows 10 : Windows seems to create an empty Local drive after boot
My Windows 10 creates an empty (size 0) Drive (Q:, seen as a local drive), on which I have no access right, even as Administrator.
When I go in This Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Manager this ...
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How to change the order of CD-ROM drives in Windows?
Is there a way to change the order/position of CD-ROM drives in Windows? I have used Daemon tools to mount a virtual disc and I want to change its position to first i.e. 0.
The first one is the ...
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Why VirtualBox harddisk is always growing even though I delete files from virtual drive?
I have seen it with both VBox native VDI format and VMDK format. Even though I delete files from virtual drive, I see it always keeps growing. I have some vague idea that file zero-ing doesn't ...
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