I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...

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 ...

In this post, we will see how to shrink and compact hard disks in Hyper-V. This allows you to make room for the hard disks if they are too big for your physical computer. Since Hyper-V hard disks are ...

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 ...

I have been using Hyper-V since it was first released with Windows Server 2008. As far as I can remember, during that time I have never run into a situation in which a virtual machine completely ran ...

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 ...

Are you getting a virtual disk service error when trying to run DiskPart? This can be a very frustrating issue, but luckily it is easy to fix. In this article, I will ...

While browsing the r/Windows10 subreddit, I remember someone asking if virtual hard disks (VHDs) offered free and additional storage. It gave me a chuckle (if only it worked that way!), but honestly, ...

I have some software (written in-house) that I want to run in a Hyper-V VM, hosted on Win11 Pro. The VM is running Win10 Pro. The software licensing fails, because it can't see a hdd model or serial ...