Comments on: Mount VHD files in Windows 7 and Vista

By: colorzone

colorzone — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:41:14 +0000

WinMount provides an easiest way to mount VHD as a virtual disk. You can read or write to the vhd file without loading the virtual system.
Here shows you how to do: http://www.winmount.com/mount_vhd.html

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:29:51 +0000

Thanks for mentioning Gizmo Drive. This looks like an interesting tool. I might review it soon.

By: Andrzej Rusztowicz

Andrzej Rusztowicz — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:07:21 +0000

I am sure I did it last week: http://img266.yfrog.com/i/truecryptvhd7zip.png/ but I did have some unrelated problems (turned out to be my VHD’s fault, not 7zip’s) and next time used Gizmo Drive instead: http://arainia.com/software/gizmo/overview.php?nID=4

Interestingly, when I tried to use 7zip on a new machine, I failed to find this feature…

Both programs worked with VHD inside TrueCrypt volume.

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:34:55 +0000

Andrzej, are sure that 7-zip supports VHD? I just tried it and it didn’t work. The documentation doesn’t mention VHD.

By: Andrzej Rusztowicz

Andrzej Rusztowicz — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:11:18 +0000

You can also use the free 7-zip to open, view and copy contents of VHD volumes. I used it to open VHD stored on volume encrypted with TrueCrypt, because mounting it inside Windows 7 Disk Management caused a bluescreen.

By: Josip Medved

Josip Medved — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:24:21 +0000

There is also tool to add attach and detach operations to right-click menu. It can be found at
http://www.jmedved.com/default.aspx?page=vhdattach

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:32:57 +0000

Hi JM(point no 7)

I had the same error as you. I have this error because i was trying to create a new vdh on \\vmhost01\e$\myvm instead of pressing broswe selecting vmhost01 then e the myvm -E:\myvm.

I am doing this from my vista machine running hyper-v manager

By: Jm

Jm — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:46:54 +0000

I’m uing Windows 7 now and want to restore some files from my Windows Vista Business Backup VHD files. I can not Attach VHD through Disk Management, its giving an error that “The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation”…..
Can anyone guide me???

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By: Alex Yeffal

Alex Yeffal — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:53:46 +0000

Thanks a lot.

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:22:57 +0000

Alex, you can use diskpart to mount the VHD in a login script.

By: Alex Yeffal

Alex Yeffal — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:30:21 +0000

Hi, each time I restart the computer I need to attach again the VHD, is this normal? Or there is a way that the VHD just stays there with the ther drives?
Thanks.

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:20:38 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been wondering this too. I think I will play with the new VHD capabilities of Windows 7 in the coming days and report about it here.

By: SLam

SLam — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:08:23 +0000

I wonder if you can backup an entire drive to a VHD file, load it onto a VM such as VS 2005 or HyperV and bootup windows. Not the best P2V because drivers will be incompatible in the VM, but it would be interesting.