An OS disk created from VM1, Attach to VM2 as Data disk, both same OS

Question

I lost access to a VM, hosting SQL server, created a snapshot from the disk and wish to mount/attach to another VM, so that I can copy data from it.
Source OS and Target OS, both are windows. VM size are same.

Answer 1

Hello @Neeraj Saxena ,

Welcome to the MS Q&A forum.

I am sorry to hear you lost access to your VM.
As I understand you are looking for the steps to recover data from the non-recoverable VM.

To accomplish it, you need:

1) Take a snapshot of the OS disk of the affected VM as a backup. For more information, see Snapshot a disk.
2) Attach the OS disk to a recovery VM.
3) Once the OS disk is attached on the recovery VM, run diskmgmt.msc to open Disk Management, and ensure the attached disk is ONLINE.

I hope above steps should help you resolve the issue. Please contact me if you have any further questions with the troubleshooting.

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