A common way to attach a virtual hard disk to a virtual machine is via the Hyper-V Manager. But, as Brien shows, you can use PowerShell instead. Recently, I have been spending some time coming up with ...

Microsoft introduced Hyper-V's passthrough disk feature quite some time ago, and to be perfectly honest with you, it's one of those features that I have never used in a production environment. Sure, I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Without any sort of major fuss or media blitz, VMware released a 1.0 version of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The VMware VDDK is an open API and SDK that enables VMware customers and ...

Microsoft warns that a newly acknowledged issue can lead to data loss when resetting virtual disks using the Server Manager management console. Server Manager helps IT admins manage Windows-based ...

Make sure that your account has an administrator account and that you have a clear idea of what you plan to do. Restart your Windows PC and check if the service errors are not there anymore. You can ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Windows comes with a built tool— Disk Management —that offers a complete solution to manage hard disks on the computer. You can use it to shrink volume, increase volume or portion size, create new ...