I know this topic is widely discussed but I can not find even partial answer that works for me.

So I'm working on a `ASP.NET MVC 4` application. For testing purposes I want to use images from my local machine. In my view I have:

```
<div class ="banner-top" style="width: 200px; height: 200px;">
    <img src='file:///C|:/Users/My-Pc/Desktop/Images/banner-big-top.png' alt="banner"/>
</div>

```

This is only one of the many attempts I made while trying to display this image. I can see a plain text `banner` and that's all. I tried forward slash, black slash, and I don't remember what else but neither was working and my setup is absolutely simple - the solution is on my local machine, the file is on the local machine. So how can I display this image? Could it be that `MVC 4` itself is preventing the image from showing? I tried everything in FF and Chrome, all the different ways didn't work on both browsers.