virtual drive

[newbie]

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what is virtual drive? How does and why one uses it?
TIA

 

[Guest]

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It negates the need for a real one.

newbie wrote:

> what is virtual drive? How does and why one uses it?
> TIA
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[Guest]

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Virtual drive uses "software" to make it look like the drive is really
connected.

Two types of virtual drive arre normally used:

1) RAID -- used to create a huge hard drive (using odd number of drives,
greater than 2) or mirrored hard drives

2) Virtual CD Rom drive -- no need to carry the CD Rom drive with your
laptop
NOTE: Most newer software
(especially games) will not allow you to install it onto a PC that has a
virtual CD Rom
drive (Half-Life 2
and/or DOOM 3)


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> TIA
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