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How can I easily add storage to a VirtualBox machine with XP installed?

When I installed Windows XP on a VirtualBox machine, I made the hard drive only 10 GB since and assumed it would expand in size (as do hard drives in VMWare as far as I can remember, isn't this true?). In any case, I'm trying to install Visual…
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C#: Create a virtual drive in Computer

Is there any way to create a virtual drive in "(My) Computer" and manipulate it, somewhat like JungleDisk does it? It probably does something like: override OnRead(object sender, Event e) { ShowFilesFromAmazon(); } Are there any API:s for this?…
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Visual Studio ISO files downloaded, how do I run? Do I need virtual drive tool?

I have Visual Studio 2010 Pro on a DVD disc, but it is an ISO image, and I wanted to run this on my home PC in place of 2010 Express Edition. So first of all, can I run this on my home computer? Do I need a virtual drive tool to run an image on my…
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Cross OS virtual drive functionality

Looking for online resources to implement a virtual drive functionality similar to ones implemented in products listed The solution should be cross OS (win, pc, linux) preferably using a well behaving framework. Currently the answer to this…
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Emulate a hard drive in Linux

I have developed a FUSE-based file system as part of a research project and now have to study the actual read/write requests that are received by the hard drive. In an attempt to do this, I am looking at the option of creating a virtual Hard Drive…
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Virtual drives in .NET?

Is there any easy library for .NET to mount virtual drives? I need to mount an archive in a virtual drive and, most likely, use a virtual file system. The archive format does not support folders so I'd need to supply the files and folders manually…
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Delete in Cloud Files API stopped working on Windows 21H1

I am creating virtual drive using Windows Cloud Filter API. The delete callback stopped working as expected on Windows Home 21H1 19043.1165 (cldflt.sys 10.0.19041.1110). If I return an error code from the CF_CALLBACK_TYPE_NOTIFY_DELETE, the…
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How to implement ‘Always Keep on This Device’ on macOS in File Provider?

I am implementing a File Provider on macOS. I see that OneDrive has an offline mode with ‘Always Keep on This Device’ and ‘Free up Space’ menus: On Windows, this functionality is provided by Pinned and Unpinned file attributes as well as…
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Windows virtual disk for remote web service

I need to implement a Windows Virtual Disk that is visible as a separate disk device in Windows Explorer and transfer all files/dir transferred forth and back to a remote WebService - sth like a DropBox. Do I have to implement/use a kernel driver…
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How to implement Streaming Mode using Cloud Filter API (cfapi)?

I am trying to implement streaming mode using Cloud Filter API. My aim is to create a drive with high security - the file content is available only when the drive is online and no data is stored on the client machine. If permissions are withdrawn,…
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Virtual File System API / Cloud Provider Synchronization API for Linux?

Microsoft and Apple have recently introduced an API for synchronizing cloud storage files to the local file system: Cloud Provider API (also known as Cloud Filter API) for Windows and File Provider API for Apple and iOS. For example, the Microsoft…
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macFuse requires Recovery mode on Mac OS 11+

Since Mac OS 11 Big Sur release Apple allows installation of kext drivers in the Recovery mode only. It also prohibits installation of kext drivers from Apple store. Which I guess is the end of macFuse, at least for virtual/cloud file systems. What…
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Create a fake virtual drive (to handle file I/O to that drive)

Possible Duplicate: C#: Create a virtual drive in Computer My aim is to create a fake virtual drive to share on the network. The purpose of this fake drive is simply to receive files transferred to it through the network, and then discard them…
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How to overcome 4Gb limitation on file download in virtual drive based on Cloud Sync Engine?

I am implementing a virtual drive using Cloud Files API and this project. However, the download is stuck on files larger than 4Gb. The progress stops and the TransferDataAsync() is never called again, even though there are more bytes left in the…
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How do I mount a cloud storage provider as a drive?

I am creating a custom cloud storage provider for Windows, based on this repo. I have removed the root node in the Windows file manager as described in this post. Now I need to mount it as a drive. How do I display my custom cloud storage provider…
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