Now your VHD will be initialized. Double-click on your file, and the .vhd/.vhdx file will now be mounted and attached as a drive. You will see it open in a separate File Explorer window.

To do that, you need to download the disk2vhd utility from microsoft.com. The Disk2vhd utility will turn a real drive into a Virtual Hard Disk image file (VHD or VHDX) for use in VirtualBox.

Under “Storage Location,” specify where you want to save the VHD file of the virtual drive. You can easily move the file later and also enter the desired size of the future data vault.

Some of you seem confused about how Windows 7 goes about supporting .VHD files as used by Virtual PC, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Here's a quick how-to work with .VHD files in Windows 7.

Windows only: Free application Gizmo Drive mounts almost any virtual hard drive you can throw at it, including ISO, BIN, CUE, and the new virtual hard drive (VHD) images supported in Windows 7.

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 ...

VHD Attach simply adds a right-click "Attach" and "Detach" entry when you pull up the context menu on a VHD file.

This means that you cannot mount the VHD on the same computer as the one it was converted from. Typically, this isn't a problem because the majority of the time, the originating VHD will be attached ...