VHD Mount, described in my article "Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Treasures: VHD Mount,"is a tool that allows you to locally mount Virtual Server or Virtual PC .vhd virtual hard disk files on a Windows ...

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 ...

Windows 7/Windows Server 2008: If you're a fan of the virtual hard drive system available in newer versions of Windows but you're not a fan of digging in the control panel for clunky mounting and ...

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 ...

A few days ago, I wrote about what seemed to be an elegant solution to the problem of mounting VHD files within Server 2008 without installing IIS and Virtual Server 2005. Ravi Chaganti came up with a ...

After reading my article "Backing Up Live Virtual Server VMs," a couple of administrators asked me if it was possible to back up individual files or folders inside a running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 ...

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 ...

The problem occurs because of a conflict with the VHD file that is created by Windows Backup and is mounted during the process. There are three types of VHD files here— Fixed, Expandable(Sparse), and ...