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

Another GUI solution : WinHex.

“File” > “New” > “Desired file size” = [X]
“File” > “Save as” = [Name]

Contrary to some of the already proposed solutions, it actually writes the (empty) data on the device.

It also allows to fill the new file with a selectable pattern or random data :

“Edit” > “Fill file” (or “Fill block” if a block is selected)