Windows 10: VHD removed after Windows 11 upgrade

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We encountered an issue where, after the Windows 11 upgrade, the VHD created on the computer’s hard disk was removed or disappeared, including all its contents. In this post, we are going to talk about this issue, see why this is happening, and what you can do if the VHD is removed after a Windows […]

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VHD disappeared after Windows 11 upgrade

I am perplexed. 3 days ago, I made a VHD on an HDD on my desktop PC. I was running Windows 10 pro v.22H2. Now, this HDD is a 2T drive that has 3 partitions on it (drives E: F: G). I took the F: drive, which had 224 GB free space and allocated 100 GB for the VHD. After initializing and formatting it, it was given a drive letter of J:\. I pasted a copy of Windows 11 ISO onto this drive. My intention was to install Windows 11 onto the VHD so that I could test it out. My next step was to install Windows 11 onto the VHD, so I double clicked on the ISO. Windows Install began. It had been a long time since I had installed a new OS, so I just let it do it's thing. About half way through, I realized that I may have installed the OS onto my C:\ drive instead of the VHD.
After the install was completed, I went to check where it was installed. As I suspected, it was installed on my C:\ drive. It was then that I found that the VHD had disappeared, including the Windows 11 ISO that I had copied into the VHD.
I cannot explain why this happened. I am okay with Windows 11 being my only OS, but still baffled by what had occurred.

 

VHD issue with Windows 11

My Windows 11:

Device name XXXXXXXXXXX

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics 2.90 GHz

Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.4 GB usable)

Device ID XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Product ID 00330-80000-00000-AA079

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

Problem: When I create a VHD file, I have no association and can not mount the .VHD. When I attempt to make an association, the File Explorer is not a choice, and if I attempt to assign the .vhd to Explorer.exe, I get :

"Cannot associate a file type with this program. The program you have cannot be associated with this type. Please choose another program."

Please advise

Michael Lambert.

Additional Information. Virtual Box was installed on this machine and removed. The "Oracle Issue" fix was tried, as well as the Registry Edit suggestion, but the error above remains.

mikel

 

VHD

Yes this is absolutely possible. To remove a VHD please follow the steps below:

Remove Virtual Drive on Windows 10: 2 Simple Ways to Do It

Understand this will remove it and will result in it not being allocated anymore.

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