Will the VM format my REAL hard drive?

[injabie3]

Hi,
On my guest OS, i am installing Windows ME. It's formating, will it format my REAL hard drive or the image hard drive????
ANSWER QUICK!
Injabie3

 

[constant]

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I'm typing this as quick as I can for you. The virtual hard disk, which is just a file on your real hard disk, is the only thing that gets formated.
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[wonder_mice]

No, VM can't format your real drive. But some special evil (viruses, spyware) soft in theory can corrupt your host data, that were shared with VM. So, if you have very-very-very important files, it is good idea to keep them in special forlder and don't share it with VM. But also you must understand, that probability of such case when guest and host are different OS is really very low, because viruses often (almost always) have no idea what to do on other platform