How Do You Create A Virtual Drive?
A pretty cool feature of Windows is the capability to create a virtual disk drive. A virtual disk drive is a special folder of an actual physical drive that actually serves as a drive in its own right. You can, for example, create a virtual CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive in Windows. A key advantage of a virtual drive is that it usually saves time. A virtual CD drive, for example, can be read much faster than a physical CD because it exists on the hard drive. The fastest and simplest way to create a virtual drive is to use one of the several free and commercial applications available online. But where’s the fun in that? Read on to learn how to manually create a virtual drive in Windows XP. Step 1 Click your Start button and then click Run. In the text field, you will type in “cmd” The command prompt will appear. Step 2 Type in subst x: “C:\windows” => Replace the “x” with the drive letter for the virtual drive you want to create. This can be any letter so long as it is not assigned to any othe
