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 ...

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Back in January, Microsoft's apparent intention of bringing more robust ReFS or Resilient File System support to Windows 11 became evident when users were able to install the OS on an ReFS volume.

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 ...

Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be writing about some of my favorite features in the recently released Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Service Pack 1. This week, I'll start with VHD Mount. VHD ...

The new OS will let users open and view the contents of ISO and VHD files, tasks that previously required third-party utilities. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former ...

Microsoft is continually working to improve its Win11 system, and they have recently announced some new features they are adding, including support for VHD and VHDX hard disks. The company will also ...

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 ...

As LinuxWorld Expo and Open Solutions World kick off in Boston, XenSource announced the deal with Microsoft and formally launched XenEnterprise, which is slated to begin shipping in the second half.

First of all, create a folder to create VHD (virtual disk) on a drive with more than 50 GB of free space. This time, I created a folder named "VHD" on drive D. Right-click "Computer" in the start menu ...