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.

If you want to recover deleted files and data from Virtual Machines on Windows systems, then this post shows how you can retrieve Data from Virtual Disk files.

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.

Creating a VHD file using Disk2vhd As its name suggests, Disk2vhd is a free tool that lets you save the contents of your storage drives in the form of .vhd files. Besides providing a means to ...