Step 4 of 4- A better explanation of the options - I have soem feedback

[David (PassMark)]

Drive emulation: More information on the difference between the two modes and how they interact with the OS and why would you select logical over physical emualtion when you are mounting a drive image.

For most people it will make no difference.

A physical disk refers to the actual hardware device used for storage. This could be a hard disk drive (HDD), solid-state drive (SSD), or other storage media. But in this case we emulate the hardware. The physical disk still needs a volume, or volumes, to to useful in Windows however.

So in either case you get a volume. But with the physical disk option you also get an emulated physical disk. For most software this doesn't matter. But there are a few software packages (like partition managers) that expect to find a physical disk.

Drive Type

A HDD will be picked in preference to a floppy disk.

[shoulders]

Hi

I am a novice user and the information on these options are a bit limited and I think should be expaned

• Mount as removable media: It should be added here that this effectively sets the "Removable Media Bit" (RMB) as is a king to a USB drive or SD Flash media.
• Read-only: this has good explanations
• Use existing write cache files (.osfdelta): this has good explanations
• Drive emulation: More information on the difference between the two modes and how they interact with the OS and why would you select logical over physical emualtion when you are mounting a drive image.
• Drive Type: The information here is very limited. Auto is obvious but how does it pick, i have read it will pick HDD if it finds a partition table. if your image is an ISO it is straight forward either the auto works or you manually pcik the CD/DVD-ROM option. My main issue here is the difference between HDD and Floppy. Does Floppy actuall mean "Super Floppy" where the drive does not have a partition table? Perhaps if this is the case rename it from Floppy to "Super Floppy" as people understand what this is ofr even "Floppy/Super Floppy"
• Drive Letter: this has good explanations

Thanks for the software and hopefully my feedback will help, and if anyone can clear any of these up for me I will add it to my notes.

shoulders.