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[Vas709]

Is it possible to create more than one fixed-size VHDs on my computer? I just wanted to know, because I don't want my physical disk to run out of space because of fixed-size VHDs.

Vasja Stojkovic

[Sha0]

Is it possible to create more than one fixed-size VHDs on my computer? I just wanted to know, because I don't want my physical disk to run out of space because of fixed-size VHDs.

Yes, it is possible to have multiple .VHD files in the same filesystem. Yes, it is possible to run out of space in that filesystem. I don't understand how this knowledge will help you to avoid running out of space in the filesystem, but certainly when you create a VHD file, you'll know how much space it occupies and you can check how much space is available.

[Centaur]

I run 3 win XP VHD's on my Note Book from Grub4dos menu, on for the wife, one for me and one to test programs in a clean install.

 

back ups are faster as you only have to back up the VHD(to me at least), i have a emergency boot thumb drive with a VHD on it for repairing the VHD's in the Notebook.

 

i made one XP VHD  and copied it to twice to new file names for the three VHD's

 

title [B] Boot  Windows XP \nBoot Windows XP
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /1XP-1.vhd
map /1XP-1.vhd (hd0)
map --hook
root (hd0,0)
chainloader /ntldr