How Windows 8 Systems partition disks

Create an encrypted partition with the VHD feature of Windows 8, and then encrypt the virtual hard disk two times with BitLocker encryption, which makes your personal data impenetrable.

Windows 8, the next-generation operating system, adds a number of new features to information security, especially VHD and BitLocker features. The VHD feature can help the user to virtual out a hard drive, just keep the private things in the virtual hard disk, you can achieve "encryption" purposes. Coupled with the unbreakable BitLocker encryption method for the virtual hard disk two times encryption, dual-sword after the data is more secure. Speaking here is not a bit of a heartbeat, then see how the old society is how to practice it!

Create a virtual hard disk with a VHD

First, load the disk volume. In Windows 8, under the Start interface, click the Desktop icon to enter the desktop environment. Then move the cursor to the lower left corner of the desktop taskbar, pop-up "Start" icon, right click on the icon, click "Disk Management" (see Figure 1) in the pop-up Start menu to open the Computer Management program. Next, click Disk Management on the left frame of the window to load all the disk volumes under the right frame of the window.

Figure 1

Second, create a VHD virtual hard disk. Open the Computer Management program, right-click the Disk Management icon in the frame on the left of the window, click the Create VHD menu (see Figure 2), and open the Create and attach virtual hard disk dialog box. Next, click the Browse button under the dialog box, select the location of the virtual hard disk (where the file path is "E: Picture library", file name is "123456"), click the "Save" button to return to the previous dialog box, "Virtual hard disk size" can be set, as long as the disk partition is not free space, This is set to "10000" MB according to your own needs. Select "VHD" and "Fixed size" below "virtual hard disk format" to keep the virtual hard disk space unchanged and click OK to complete the creation (see Figure 3).

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Figure 3

Again, attach the virtual hard disk (load the virtual file). After you double-click Computer on your desktop, open the new Volume (E:) → photo gallery window. Right click on the 123456 file icon (that is, the VHD image file you just created), and click the Mount menu to finish loading the file. Open the computer again on the desktop, the virtual hard disk icon does not appear, and you need to initialize the virtual hard disk.