Mounted container, but no encryption

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Brian (Groups)

I'm looking for software something like Truecrypt, but without the
passworded encryption. Essentially I want to be able to mount container
files, of specific sizes, to use as virtual drives. Ideally, these
would mount at startup, effectively being "up" all the time. Any ideas
please?

Brian
 
files, of specific sizes, to use as virtual drives. Ideally, these
would mount at startup, effectively being "up" all the time. Any ideas
please?
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Create partitions for this use ?
 
How about virtual drives with the "subst" command??
26 letters, except existing drives A: B: C: D: ??????????
 
Brian (Groups) said:
I'm looking for software something like Truecrypt, but without the
passworded encryption. Essentially I want to be able to mount container
files, of specific sizes, to use as virtual drives. Ideally, these
would mount at startup, effectively being "up" all the time. Any ideas
please?
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Just a suggestion

FileDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT/2000/XP that uses one or
more files to emulate physical disks. <snip>
FileDisk can use sparse files as disk images. A sparse file is a file were
suficiently large blocks of zeros isn't allocated disk space. You can create
sparse files with the tool mksparse.zip. To see how much disk space a file
actually uses right click on the file and choose properties. If you for
example creates a sparse file of 4GB, mounts it in FileDisk and formats it
to NTFS, it will only take up 24MB on disk but looks like a normal disk of
4GB. When you copy files to it the used disk space will automatically
increase.

http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/
 
Thanks for these suggestions. A dedicated partition does seem to be the
most obvious and simplest idea. I should have been more specific with
my OP, but the situation ideally requires something persistent (between
reboots) so SUBST would (I presume) need to be run through a startup
batch file to achieve the desired result. FileDisk does look like an
interesting possibility too.

cheers
Brian
 
reboots) so SUBST would (I presume) need to be run through a startup
batch file to achieve the desired result. FileDisk does look like an
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Yes

Create a file START.BAT containing SUBST commands
and place a shortcut to START.BAT in START group of PROGRAMS.
I use this possibility, it works very fine.
 
Euthymenes said:
Yes

Create a file START.BAT containing SUBST commands
and place a shortcut to START.BAT in START group of PROGRAMS.
I use this possibility, it works very fine.
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Thanks for the info. I think though, that something like FileDisk would
suit better, since I can specify a (max) size to which the volume can
grow.

Brian
 
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