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bpark42:

--- Quote from: shateredsoul on July 29, 2010, 12:56:27 pm ---I need to create an F drive on my pc that can be written and read from like a real drive.  Is there such a thing? I don't want to partition my hdd.

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Multiple valid solutions have already been proposed, but it would be helpful to at least know what operating system you are using.  Also, you say you want a program to be able to read and write from this virtual drive.  Why are you trying to do it this way?  Performance?  Do you want the files to be maintained permanently or do you not care what happens to them when the system is powered down?

Personally, assuming you are using any recent form of Windows, I would just use the previously mentioned subst command.  It is the simplest way of accomplishing this.

If performance is your main concern then a ramdisk may be what you are after.

bkenobi:
Like has been mentioned, it really makes a difference what you are doing with the drive to be able to recommend a good solution. 

I was thinking you just wanted to fake a program into thinking your mounted image was in a drive.  You can use subst for that.

If you want to extract an image to the virtual drive, you might be better off with a ram drive since it will be faster and you don't have to worry about deleting the files when done.

There's a lot of ways to solve your question, but without more info, you won't really have a solution.

shateredsoul:
I am running windows 7 and someone mentioned in another forum that they could make this program run using a ram drive.  I think i'll give that a try.

I'm being vague about the game because it's a current arcade game and I think we're not suppose to talk about that stuff here  ::)

BUT it includes flying women and it's a shmup.. and it recently came out on xbox 360.  This is the arcade version I'm trying to setup.

Malenko:
sounds like DeathSmiles.

Try a second hard drive?

SirDaShadow:

--- Quote from: shateredsoul on July 30, 2010, 01:16:22 pm ---I am running windows 7 and someone mentioned in another forum that they could make this program run using a ram drive.  I think i'll give that a try.

I'm being vague about the game because it's a current arcade game and I think we're not suppose to talk about that stuff here  ::)

BUT it includes flying women and it's a shmup.. and it recently came out on xbox 360.  This is the arcade version I'm trying to setup.

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Guys you are doing it wrong, here is how you do it. I have 2 vhds with emulators in there because the roms are so small it's wasteful to have it on the OS filesytem.


http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-create-attach-detach-a-virtual-hard-disk-vhd-in-windows-7/


Edit: Once you have it up and runnning, install this program to easily manage the vhd http://lifehacker.com/5396539/vhd-attach-adds-virtual-hard-drive-mounting-to-your-right+click-menu

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