How to Backup Your Data to a Virtual Hard Drive in Windows 7

Having a solid backup plan is a must if you have important data on your PC that you don’t want to lose. Today we take a look at a unique way of using a virtual hard drive in Windows 7 to back up some files.

Create a Virtual Hard Drive (VHD)

The first thing we need to do is create a VHD. In this article we are concentrating on how to backup your data to a VHD, we’ll briefly cover how to create one, but make sure and check out our full tutorial on how to create a VHD in Windows 7.

In this example we’re creating a 2GB VHD, but you can make it whatever size you think you’ll need for your data.

Right-click on Computer and select Manage and when the Computer Management screen opens under Storage highlight Disk Management then click on Action \ Create VHD.

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