How to attach a VHD like a regular hard drive in Windows 7

2010/08/21

Filed under: Uncategorized — obligatorymoniker @ 2:48 pm

Click Start Menu
Right Click Computer and click Manage from the context menu
Click Disk Management and wait for the right hand pane to load
Right click on Disk Management and select Attach VHD
Browse to the location of your VHD and then click OK
Now you should see a light blue disk drive in the right hand pane that represents your attached VHD
Now you can access this drive like you would any other hard drive.

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Comments (2)

[...] reorganized the parent VHD of your differencing VHD is no longer accessible. After you try and attach your differencing VHD you may see an error message like this [...]

Pingback by How to rebase differencing disk VHDs (or how to change the parent of a differencing VHD when the parent has moved) « Obligatory Moniker's Blog — 2010/08/21 @ 3:07 pm | Reply
That is in fact very cool. It’s great to see how Microsoft is embracing virtualization and making it so accessible. It’s little details like this.

Comment by Fernando Correia — 2010/10/31 @ 7:22 am | Reply

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