[BUG?] Physical Disk (Msft Virtual Disk)

[wincmd64]

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Description

after installing Sandbox:
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /All /FeatureName:Containers-DisposableClientVM
a disk appeared: Physical Disk (Msft Virtual Disk): 8.00 GiB [SSD, Fixed]

and it's not in disk manager

Version used

2.61

Bug prevalence

Always

Regression

Not sure

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[CarterLi]

Likely not a bug. Despite the name, Physical Disk module detects all disks, including virtual (such as RAM disk, file based disk) and physical. Physical Disk module disk should have been called Disk, while Disk module should have been called Partition.

Please post the result of fastfetch -s physicaldisk -j for more information

[wincmd64]

IMHO, if it's not listed in Disk Management, it's better not to show it.

[
  {
    "type": "PhysicalDisk",
    "result": [
      {
        "name": "Micron MTFDKCD512TFK",
        "devPath": "\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0",
        "interconnect": "NVMe",
        "kind": "SSD",
        "size": 512110190592,
        "serial": "00A0_7501_3764_5FE3.",
        "removable": false,
        "readOnly": false,
        "revision": "1004V5LN",
        "temperature": null
      },
      {
        "name": "USSD USSD",
        "devPath": "\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive1",
        "interconnect": "USB",
        "kind": "SSD",
        "size": 127943045632,
        "serial": "DD56419883939",
        "removable": true,
        "readOnly": false,
        "revision": "0301",
        "temperature": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Msft Virtual Disk",
        "devPath": "\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive2",
        "interconnect": "File Backed Virtual",
        "kind": "SSD",
        "size": 8589934592,
        "serial": "",
        "removable": false,
        "readOnly": false,
        "revision": "1.0",
        "temperature": null
      }
    ]
  }
]```

[CarterLi]

After some testing, I found that If you open a ISO image file with explorer, the mounted DVD drive is also reported as File Backed Virtual, but is listed in Disk Management. As Disk Management is a closed-source program, the actual algorithm determine whether to show the drive is unknown.

In addition, fastfetch is a cross-platform program. If we implement such algorithm on Windows, we should better implement the same thing to other platforms.

Before that, I'd like to keep the current behavior.