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 ...

Here's another goodie from Microsoft for its upcoming flagship operating system Windows 8: the ability to read data in ISO and VHD files. Windows storage and file systems team manager Rajeev Nagar ...

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 ...

Update, July 14, 2013: I have tested the steps in this article with the Windows 8.1 Preview and can confirm that the procedures described here work properly. Update, August 17, 2012: I have tested the ...

If you have a VHDX file and you want to make it compatible with some other virtual machine that supports VHD format, then this post shows how you can convert the Hyper-V VHDX file to VHD using Windows ...

Once you finally start backing up your data (like you’ve been told to over, and over again), consider using a virtual hard drive (VHD). VHDs have been used by IT professionals for years in virtual ...

Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 introduce a new virtual hard disk file format, VHDX, which is an upgrade from the current VHD format and provides for superior performance, reliability and several ...