Ghacks shows you how to backup data to a virtual hard drive in Windows 7

Not many are aware that it is possible to create Virtual Hard Drive images in Windows 7. Backing up your data is important and this article will detail how to backup data to a Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) or hard drive partition. Creating the Drive is the first step, but the backup is the crucial point. It is best to use an external Hard Drive for backup, but this method can be easily as effective, as this data can be transferred to an external hard drive later. This is an especially useful feature for a network. All data from all computers and devices on a given network can be stored on a Windows 7 VHD. In this way, multiple computers can have their backup on one computer in the network and then all computers on the network can consolidate backups to a single external hard drive backup. This is useful for single PC users as well.

  Backup Data to a Virtual Hard Drive in Windows 7