Managing Disks
Disk Technology
Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
- Windows 7 is the first version of Windows to natively support Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) operations. Files can be stored in a VHD storage location just like any other disk technology once the VHD is made available in the Windows 7 operating system.
- All file data stored in a VHD is actually stored in a single fileon the file system of a real disk drive. A VHD may contain thousands of individual files from the user's perspective, but it still only appears as one physical file on the real disk drive.
- Only Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Enterprise support the ability to natively boot from a VHD.