Windows 10: How to Mount or Unmount VHD or VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk) File in Windows 10

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    How to Mount or Unmount VHD or VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk) File in Windows 10

    WinClub, Nov 4, 2019
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    Hi, and thanks for your reply.

    There is no problem with File Backups. It is the System Image Backup .vhdx file which I am trying to view, using it to mount a VHD (Drive MHow to Mount or Unmount VHD or VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk) File in Windows 10 :) which appears empty to File Manager. As you suggested I had a good look at the W7 tutorial for file mounting, and explored some of its links, but to no avail.

    I also tried to mount the VHD with Diskpart from elevated command prompt: Diskpart; select vdisk file=filename.vhdx; attach vdisk. There was no need to assign a drive letter as Windows remembered it, which is annoying. M: was again empty.

    Then, Windows PowerShell: Mount-VHD -Path "[location of vhd]". This cmdlet failed with error message "Mount-VHD is not recognised as the name of a cmdlet ...". Googling this, I found this could be due to the absence of a Hyper-V module for Windows PowerShell. Now, I know that Hyper-V Virtualization does not come with W10 Home but does with W10 Pro. Could my problem be related? Could it be that the image file is vdhx rather than vdh which I assume was the format in W7? I am out of my depth here, and don't want to experiment without advice.

    Out of interest I checked UEFI Bios and found Virtualisation Technology to be disabled, and Hyper-V missing from the Programs and Features list in Control Panel. With some trepidation I tried Enabling Virtualisation. Programs and Features list was unchanged, as was the PowerShell outcome and the zero content of M: after attaching via Disk Management. I returned Virtualisation to Disabled.

    Drive M:'s properties show its partition type to be GUID, not MBR.

    Grateful for any further thoughts. Thanks.
     
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  3. jon111 Win User
    can a virtual hard disk be mounted when the file does not have the .vhd extension?

    i would like to remove the .vhd extension from a virtual hard disk and still be able to mount the drive with explorer.exe. forcing the use of the .vhd file extension makes finding these types of high value files way to easy. i removed the .vhd file extension,
    but then the system will not mount the drive. "open with" explorer.exe fails. using" disk management" fails. etc. somehow this makes little sense to me. windows hard reliance on file extensions is really not good computer science. if you try to mount what
    is internally just a text file, then it should fail being processed as a virtual hard disk and a user error message would be in order.
     
    jon111, Nov 4, 2019
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