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How to create a virtual drive of a non bootable drive ?

How to create a virtual drive of a non bootable drive ?

through which we can see the preview of the drive without clicking on the original drive.

Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Dec 15, 2013 10:41 PM

23 replies

Jan 22, 2014 8:59 PM in response to etresoft

You said that a DMG is a virtual drive, but the size of the DMG is depend upon the free space of our bootable drive.

For Example : If our bootable drive having 100 GB free space , then we are restricted to make a DMG of less than 100 GB.

But according to the concept of virtual drive we can make a drive of any size , it does not depend upon the size of our bootable drive.

Than how can we say that a DMG is a virtual drive.

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How to create a virtual drive of a non bootable drive ?

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