Stephanie Kahlam
On occasion I need to create large to mammoth size files for testing purposes. Windows command line makes this possible and quickly.
- Open a command prompt with elevated permissions – Run As Administrator
- Type at the prompt: fsutil file createnew <path to file> <file size>
- Example: fsutil file createnew c:\test.txt 1073741824
The file size should be entered in Bytes. I use whatsabyte.com
Now you have an empty file that you can use for testing purposes, or to ensure reserved space on a drive should it ever be required.