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 ...

What is a virtual disk and what are the characteristics of a virtual disk under Windows Server 2012 R2? A virtual disk is essentially a single file that is placed on a physical hard drive. The virtual ...

Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.

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 ...

A virtual PC, also called a virtual machine or VM for short, is a fully-fledged PC system that runs in a window on your PC but remains isolated from it. The virtualization software required for this, ...

If you want to squeeze the utmost performance out of your PC, you can use your graphics card’s memory as temporary storage. Several experimental tools, such as VRAMDISK and GpuRamDrive, allow you to ...