1-Lets create and attach a virtual disk
\n2-Lets create a disk
\n3-Lets create a partition
\n4-Lets format it
\n5-Lets install grub4dos as bootloader
\n6-Lets copy\/paste grldr and menu.lst<\/p>\n
1-Lets create and attach a virtual disk<\/strong> 2-Lets create a disk (i.e initialise)<\/strong><\/p>\n 3-Lets create a partition<\/strong> 4-Lets format it (FAT or FAT32, NTFS works too)<\/strong><\/p>\n 5-Lets install grub4dos as bootloader in the MBR<\/strong><\/p>\n 6-Do not close CloneDisk yet (or else your new virtual logical drive will away) and copy\/paste grldr and menu.lst (in CloneDisk zip file)<\/strong><\/p>\n You got yourself a bootable disk image, feel free to add your own content. In a next tutorial<\/a>, we will see how to PXE boot this virtual disk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are times where you need to make a bootable disk image, to boot from pxe, or from a boot loader (grub4dos, ms bootmgr, etc). Lets see how to make it quick and easy with CloneDisk : 1-Lets create and attach a virtual disk 2-Lets create a disk 3-Lets create a partition 4-Lets format it […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boot","category-clonedisk","category-16-id","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n->ignore the parent field
\n->fill in the path field
\n->indicate the size (in MB)
\n->lets go for a fixed one (vs dynamic)<\/p>\n![\"clonedisk_howto1\"](\"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/clonedisk_howto1-300x207.png\")
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\n->CloneDisk will use the whole disk size and will make the partition active<\/p>\n![\"clonedisk_howto3\"](\"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/clonedisk_howto3-300x206.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"clonedisk_howto4\"](\"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/clonedisk_howto4-300x206.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"clonedisk_howto5\"](\"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/clonedisk_howto5-300x206.png\")
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\nEven better, since we used a VHD format, you can later on expand this virtual disk.<\/p>\n