Having a solid backup plan is a must if you have important data on your PC that you don’t want to lose. Today we take a look at a unique way of using a virtual hard drive in Windows 7 to back up some files. Create a Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) In this example we’re creating a 2GB VHD, but you can make it whatever size you think you’ll need for your data. Right-click on Computer and select Manage and when the Computer Management screen opens under Storage highlight Disk Management then click on Action \ Create VHD. Select a location on your machine where you want the VHD to live and its size. You can created it on your local drive, or in this example we placed it on an attached external drive. Decide if you want it to be Dynamically expanding or a Fixed size. Then You will see the virtual drive listed as Unknown unallocated space. Right-click the left box and Initialize Disk . Right-click the Unallocated area and select New Simple Volume. The New Simple Volume Wizard...