Virtual Drives

A virtual drive (or virtual partition) is a logical emulation of physical data medium such as hard drive. Emulated virtual drive appears to be an ordinary physical disk drive in the operating system.
For data recovery purposes can be used a special file with data saved by virtual machine. That file is called a virtual disk image. A virtual disk image has a specific file type extension, e.g., .vmdk for VMware VMDK, .vhd for Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V, .vdi for Oracle VM VirtualBox, etc.

Virtual Hard Disk

Microsoft virtual hard disk (VHD) is encapsulated in a single .vhd file. It is typically used as the hard disk of a virtual machine. VHD file contains the contents of an emulated physical disk.

VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk)

The VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) file format is a type of virtual appliance developed for VMware products:

• VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software suite for x86 and x86-64 computers. Each virtual machine instance can execute its own guest operating system, including Windows, Linux, and others.
• VMware Player is a free software from VMware. Some features of Workstation not available in Player.
• VMware Server (formerly VMware GSX Server) is a free software. VMware Server has fewer features than VMware ESX, software available for purchase, but can create, edit, and play virtual machines. Not supported anymore by developer.
• VMware ESX/ESXi is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware. This software run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.
• VMware Fusion is a virtual machine software for Macintosh computers with Intel processors. Fusion allows Intel-based Macs to run x86 and x86-64 "guest" operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris as virtual machines simultaneously with Mac OS X as the "host" operating system using a combination of paravirtualization, emulation and dynamic recompilation.

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