Maybe I'm just screwing this up, but I don't see how. I have a PC backed up to a VHD file. On a Windows 7 box, I have some version of VMWare, something from within the last year. I can create a new VM ...

I have a question that has been lingering in my mind.<BR><BR>I've been thinking of the "wonders of virtualization" and am rather convinced that within the next few years I will likely be using it in ...

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 ...

In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, you can native boot from a virtual hard disk without a hypervisor In response to my posts about managing multiboot with Windows 7 and Linux, Microsoft IT Pro ...

Microsoft has offered a look at part of its storage strategy for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system in a blog post outlining how it will handle the access of data in ISO and VHD files. Rajeev ...

On virtual hard drives, anything that could lose data on a conventional HDD or SSD can likewise do so. However, the most frequent causes of data loss on virtual hard drives or disks—whatever you want ...