You are an IT teaching God! I’ve spent hours trying to figure out how to keep a VHD attachment permanent, but just 5 minutes reading those very clear illustrated instructions was all I needed. Many thanks.
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. I’ve been struggling with which backup/restore programs to use on my Windows 7 machine, but after reading this, I’m sticking to the Backup/Restore that comes with Windows-7. Knowing that I can mount/view/use the data from the System Image file (filename.VHD), that’s all I need for my purposes.
To detach vhd in windows 7 in disk manager right click on the Disk # of the VHD (just to the left of the drive layout image – which is in the bottom half of the screen) from the option choose offline.. after that right click on the same place and u will get the DETACH option..
first u need to make the VHD OFFLINE and then u will get the DETACH OPTION in windows 7
thank you for such a detailed tutorial w/ screenshots. I have been using Windows 7 Backup since it’s release and it has saved my behind a few times. I’ve always wondered if it was possible to mount the .vhd and extract files from it, as i have seen the .vhd from VMware.
This only reinforces my idea that Windows 7 built-in Backup & Restore is all i need vs. 3rd Party Backup Software.
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You are an IT teaching God! I’ve spent hours trying to figure out how to keep a VHD attachment permanent, but just 5 minutes reading those very clear illustrated instructions was all I needed. Many thanks.
Max, is there any tweak to get this work on the Clustered environments also?
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. I’ve been struggling with which backup/restore programs to use on my Windows 7 machine, but after reading this, I’m sticking to the Backup/Restore that comes with Windows-7. Knowing that I can mount/view/use the data from the System Image file (filename.VHD), that’s all I need for my purposes.
can you help me with how to mount a vhd image on OSx (I have OSx 10.8.5)
Awesome – thanks a bunch
Can you mount a .VHD file that is currently in use?
To detach vhd in windows 7 in disk manager right click on the Disk # of the VHD (just to the left of the drive layout image – which is in the bottom half of the screen) from the option choose offline.. after that right click on the same place and u will get the DETACH option..
first u need to make the VHD OFFLINE and then u will get the DETACH OPTION in windows 7
thank you for such a detailed tutorial w/ screenshots. I have been using Windows 7 Backup since it’s release and it has saved my behind a few times. I’ve always wondered if it was possible to mount the .vhd and extract files from it, as i have seen the .vhd from VMware.
This only reinforces my idea that Windows 7 built-in Backup & Restore is all i need vs. 3rd Party Backup Software.
this is nice.. quite simple and workable
Very Useful Article
You’re Great
Great tutorial… 🙂 Now I don’t need other programs to see this kind of files
Yes, quite useful. Create the VHD with Disk2VHD which then is, in a sense, a complete system backup. Thanks!
Wondering . . . could one then take a program such as Magic ISO and create a bootable .iso image from all of the files?