Quickly create large file on a Windows system

Question

In the same vein as Quickly create a large file on a Linux system, I\'d like to quickly create a large file on a Windows system. By large I\'m thinking 5 GB.

Answer 1

I was looking for a way to create a large dummy file with space allocation recently. All of the solutions look awkward. Finally I just started the DISKPART utility in Windows (embedded since Windows Vista):

DISKPART
CREATE VDISK FILE="C:\test.vhd" MAXIMUM=20000 TYPE=FIXED

Where MAXIMUM is the resulting file size, 20 GB here.