Create Virtual Drives

XCHG · Post by **XCHG** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:55 am

Does anybody know of a program that creates virtual drives on a Windows machine? I have tried Virtual Drive Creator but windows wouldn't neither allows you to format that drive using the GUI nor using the FORMAT command. Can anybody suggest a program, please?

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:11 am

Disk_Images?

pcmattman · Post by **pcmattman** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:15 pm

I use the virtual floppy drive for Windows (vfdwin)... Because I run my OS off a floppy (no support for IDE... yet) it means that I can store everything in RAM, which makes testing much faster. When I need to test on a real PC, I just use Cygwin (dd) to move the image data onto the floppy.

muisei · Post by **muisei** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:58 am

Try DaemonTools http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php

XCHG · Post by **XCHG** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:18 pm

Combuster,
Thank you for the link. It was really useful.

pcmattman,
Yes, I use VFD too. It is great because before I had it, I had to do all the copying and etc which used to take for ever. But now it's just in a second.

muisei,
I am checking that link now. Thank you so much.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:01 pm

I'm working on my own command-line scriptable virtual disk driver for Vista, based on FileDisk but that doesn't require administrative privileges to run. (UAC popups in your build process slightly suck.)

Usage would be as simple as "echo mount C:\projects\os\diskimage.img j > \\.\IsoDiskMgr" to mount a drive, and "echo umount j > \\.\IsoDiskMgr" to unmount. Simple batch-file, UNIX-ey elegance. And none of the rootkit-ish stuff DaemonTools has to do to fight against copy-protection schemes.

Only problem is it is half-way done. I'll have to wait until spring break here at UCLA to work more on it. But it will be open-source when I finish.

Michael