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INSTALLING FIRADISK



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Firadisk installation guide.



Preparing


Boot from your VHD.

Copy everything from the firadisk-driver-0.0.1.30 folder to the root of your VHD.
You should end up with something like this



Double-click the TestSignRootCA.reg file. If security warning pops up click Yes.
You will see these windows after that





Click Yes then Ok.

Now, if your system (Windows) is 64 bits (and only in that case!) you do the following,
otherwise you go straight to the Installation section further below.



For 64 bits systems only


Right-click the TESTSIGNING_ON.cmd file and "Run as administrator".



Cmd window will open that should look something like this



Reboot. Boot from your VHD. Now in the lower right corner of the desktop, above the "tray",
you should see something like this



Now you can continue with the guide.


Installation


Press Win+R, the Run dialog will open, type hdwwiz there



Press Enter. Add Hardware wizard will open.



Click Next. On the next page select lower option and click Next.



Here scroll all the way down, select "Storage controllers" and click Next.



Click "Have Disk..."



Click "Browse..."



Go to the root of the VHD, select firadisk.inf and click "Open".
At the Install From Disk window click "OK".



Click "Next"



Click "Next"
The driver installation will start. Right away Windows Security window will pop up
that will look either like this



click "Install",
or like this



click "Install this driver software anyway".
It doesn't matter which one you get, as long as you click install
the result will be exactly the same.



click "Finish".

That's it for the installation. The driver should be working now.



Checking if the driver is installed correctly


Go to Device Manager, under "Storage controllers" there should be a device
called FiraDisk Virtual Disk Enumerator



and if you go to it's properties you should see something like this