Virtual hard disks are typically associated with virtual machines and used to store the guest OS and all its data. But VHDs work brilliantly outside virtual machines, too. They are ideal for creating ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 11's Settings app is about to get a host of new features and improvements. Microsoft is working on letting you add VHD/VHDX drives, improved keyboard options, a brand-new "Home" section, and ...

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.

I am trying to boot the trial of Windows 2008 to do some testing, and have been digging around with no luck so far... The machine I created opens and then the 'Windows is loading files...' progress ...

Microsoft has released a pre-configured VHD of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 that can be downloaded and safely evaluated in a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 environment in a similar manner to ...

Dev Drives are a Windows 11 feature you may not know of, but you really should be using them if you're a developer.