Disk2Vhd is a little Microsoft utility that does one thing and one thing well: convert physical computers to virtual disks. One of the reasons that virtual machines took off in the past decade or so ...

If we want to convert a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, we need first to change the physical hard drive to a virtual one using a free utility called Disk2vhd. Then, since ...

Windows Virtual PC creates virtual disks for each guest operating system created in the application. Virtual PC stores these disks in individual virtual hard disk -- or VHD -- files. To enable Windows ...

One of the Hyper-V features that I have found to be the most helpful over the years is the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard. This wizard, which you can see in Figure 1, has the ability to expand a ...

Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 introduce a new virtual hard disk file format, VHDX, which is an upgrade from the current VHD format and provides for superior performance, reliability and several ...

• Brien encountered a permissions problem with Hyper-V virtual hard disks when moving them between virtual machines. The issue arose when attempting to attach a previously existing virtual hard disk ...

How to access a system image and restore individual files using Windows 10’s native VHD support Your email has been sent If you've fallen behind on your File History backups, a VHD could be your ...

Windows only: Free application Gizmo Drive mounts almost any virtual hard drive you can throw at it, including ISO, BIN, CUE, and the new virtual hard drive (VHD) images supported in Windows 7.

I recently bought a new second-hand computer that came with a 1TB drive and no OS, and realized that I could install Windows 7 on my SSD, but alas, it is tiny. Only 32GB. I bought it when it was the ...

With a masterful nail in the optical disc coffin, Rajeev Nagar of the Windows 8 Storage & File Systems team has detailed how Microsoft's new operating system will natively mount ISO disc images. On ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft has unveiled a virtual hard disk test drive ...