It is terrible to be unsure of what to blog about. The weight of choice tends to create a vacuum. This is most obvious when months pass by before anything new is written. There are certainly things that have happened…
This topic is guaranteed to bore most people. Or, maybe I am wrong. Are you the kind of person that loves to defrag your disk? Are you always looking for new ways of speeding up your machine? Are knobs and…
Search, and you shall find. One of the many problems of dealing with VHDs is that they can take ages to create. More specificly, the fixed VHDs can be very slow. This is due to clearing the entire VHD with…
Microsoft produced a series of videos about Hyper-V last year from the Program Managers. Based on recent investigations, I found a good explanation of how snapshotting works. The VHD snapshotting video is a bit casual but captures the essence of…
If you look hard enough on the web, you are bound to find something good. It might not be what you started with but the distraction is worth it. This time it is the official “unofficial” documentation from Microsoft for…
Microsoft has published a new FAQ on VHDs. There is some surprising information in here and it is very recent. There are guidelines for using VHDs with Windows 7. It was unexpected advice to use Fixed VHDs. The reasons sound…
What is the difference? With VHDs, it is a classification of virtual drive. The other two types have already been covered and now it is time to briefly cover what makes the difference VHD disk interesting. Why does it exist?…
The VHD format is becoming more popular based on common use by Microsoft. It has been said that Windows 7 will have built in support for VHD and will even allow a VHD to be booted. As has been said…
One aspect of volume management is knowing which clusters are free and which ones are used. This is typically something managed solely by the operating system but it is sometimes possible to get a glimpse of how things align.…
This topic presents an interesting problem. A disk is made up of sectors which are arranged as clusters by the file system. Both NTFS and FAT use a cluster model to clump together sectors into bigger chunks. The cluster model…
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