4 reasons I use virtual hard disks in Windows, and you should too

Did you know you can make virtual disks on Windows? It’s a cool and underused feature that has been available in the OS since Windows 8. Perhaps you have seen files on your system with the VHD or VHDX extension with a hard drive icon on a PC you’re using. Those are virtual drives, which users create for various needs, and you can also make them. I often use them to share files from my host PC to a virtual machine (VM) using Hyper-V or VirtualBox. Virtual disks also offer portability so that you can move them between systems. In addition to virtual environments, they are helpful for developers, home lab enthusiasts, and IT administrators.