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VHD mounting under Windows 7

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Windows 7 has native support for VHD mounting (and booting). In my earlier blog post about VHD mounting under Vista you needed vhdmout.exe from Virtual Server. In Windows 7 you can use Disk Management and/or diskpart to mount VHD’s native!

Disk Management

You can also mount a VHD file in scripts using diskpart. Create a text file with this content:

SELECT VDISK FILE=”some  vhd file”
ATTACH VDISK

To attach the VHD image in a script, you have to use “diskpart -s textfile”

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  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2009
    Even more useful would be if they added support for mounting ISO images as drives in Windows 7.
  • Anonymous
    November 08, 2009
    For some reasons does not work for Windows Complete PC backup done on Vista.But this is fully legit scenario as it's used during Vista->7 migration.
  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2010
    Is there a way to specify drive letter with diskpart?  You could do that with vhdmount..... we're regressing.