Two weeks ago Wired reported that Microsoft made a custom version of Windows XP for the Air Force.  The story was widely reported all over the Internet showering praise upon Microsoft for their efforts.  Unfortunately this story has turned out to be inaccurate. What Microsoft actually did was help the Air Force secure their normal [...]

Virtual Hard Disks are a very cool feature in Windows 7 except for one thing, it’s not exclusive to Windows 7. Windows Vista is utilized by many people not wanting to install the Windows 7 beta for fear of losing data etc. One of the cool features of Windows 7 is that you can install to a VHD and not touch Windows Vista. There is no need to have Windows 7 fully installed to a hard drive and then utilize the VHD feature.

When I first was reading about Virtual Hard Drives (VHD) in Windows 7 the first thing that popped into my head was “How many parallel installations are allowed?”. So I decided to just keep creating them and installing them until I received an error of some sort or hit a roadblock and couldn’t install any more.

Virtual Hard Drives (VHD’s) are nothing new. They have been around in products like VMware and even in Windows Server 2008. They allow you to create a file that they acts as if it is another hard drive on the machine. This can be extremely helpful in many situations especially when you want to keep [...]