Quote Originally Posted by utu View Post
@ Capricorny

Rather than put all your stuff in with Win7 as 'just another file'
why not at least first segregate the section you use into a Virtual Hard Drive?
That is a built-in capability of Win7 Home Premium that would seem
to offer some protection from lousing up Win7 when using its resources.
I still don't get why you want to do this so terribly complicated!
Please tell me the chance of corrupting the whole Win7 file system by using my method. It's close to nil. We are not deleting, relocating, using metadata, not anything except for creating a few files at one point of time, and doing random access on them, mostly ro, later. If this had been very risky, I think we should have had reports about it.
Using virtual hard drives might well offer some protection, but I simply don't trust Windows concepts before I have seen them thoroughly tested, and the extra level of complexity must be well motivated by some actual problems.

BTW, I wonder if these VHD's are not simply loop-mounting coming to Windows. In which case we would get an extra, unnecessary level of indirection using them. But I may be wrong.