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Step 1: Start the Virtual PC Console. From the menu bar, click File, then select Virtual Disk Wizard. |
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Step 2: Click Next to continue. |
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Step 3: Select the option to Create a new virtual disk. Click Next to continue. |
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Step 4: Select the option to create A virtual hard disk. Click Next to continue. |
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Step 5: The virtual hard disk will be a vhd file. This file can be located anywhere on the host system. Remember, the file is going to represent an entire hard disk, so it will be a very large file. I prefer to keep my C: drive slimmed down for more efficient backup imaging, so let's put the vhd file on drive E:, a large NTFS data partition. Each virtual machine should have its own vhd. We can create other vhd files to use with other virtual machines. Since we're going to install Windows 98 on this vhd, we'll give it a name to help identify this one. Click Next to continue. |
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Step 6: If we select a fixed size virtual disk, the vhd file will be the same size as the virtual disk. If we select a dynamically expanding virtual disk, the vhd file will start off being smaller --just enough to cover the amount of disk space actually being used in the virtual machine. As our virtual machine adds more and more files to the virtual disk, the vhd file will increase in size. Click Next to continue. |
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Step 7: A virtual hard disk can be up to 137 GB in size. We're not going to install a lot of stuff on this Windows 98 virtual machine, so let's limit the size of the virtual disk to 2 GB. Click Next to continue. |
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Step 8: Click Finish. |