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The '''diskpart''' utility is useful for managing partitions and virtual hard drives, which can be used as loopback devices. If you want other types of loopback devices, you might want to consider [[Virtual Floppy Drive|VFD]] for floppy drives, and [[DAEMON Tools]] for optical media.
The file format used by this tool is called VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and can be used with several emulators/VMs, including [[VirtualBox]], [[Microsoft Virtual PC]], [[Xen]], and [[VMWare]].
This isn't your usualy command-line utiliy: you run it from the command prompt, after which you query commands.
In order to create a VHD
create vdisk file="C:\foo.vhd" maximum=10 type=expandable
There are a few things worth noting:
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