How to mount a VHD under Vista by double clicking

re: How to mount a VHD under Vista by double clicking

Ron — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:18:50 GMT

Please help, have tried everything to open my 2008 vhd file with not success. NT Backup and Restore reports unrecognizable data.

re: How to mount a VHD under Vista by double clicking

sampath — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:07:41 GMT

Just what i was looking for.....thanks!!!

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re: How to mount a VHD under Vista by double clicking

Derek — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:05:44 GMT

Try manually installing both INF files in teh vhdmount folder through add hardware... Then after mounting the drive (may have to unmount then remount), go into device manager and look for the warning symbol under Disk drives. Right click, update driver, and point it to the directory holding the INF files.

re: How to mount a VHD under Vista by double clicking

Jez — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:40:42 GMT

Getting similar issues with Vista x64. using /m and /f VHDMount says the drive has been plegged in ans has been mounted but no new drive appears. In computer management the drive is shown as active but with no drive letter and the only option allowed for it is to delete the volume - cant assign a drive letter to it?

Anyone have any ideas?

VHD mounting under Windows 7

Clemens Schotte's Blog — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:31:25 GMT

Windows 7 has native support for VHD mounting (and booting). In my earlier blog post about VHD mounting

re: How to mount a VHD under Vista by double clicking

Bob Dole — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:32:23 GMT

I get the same problem, here is the issue, not sure how to fix. This drive i'm mounting (my backup from vista) is greater than 128GB (even if the file isn't the file thinks it is...) so it has be mounted as a scsi virtual device with vhdmount, i can do this fine within virtual server, but no joy using vhdmount, any hidden options to associate it with virtual scsi controller?

re: How to mount a VHD under Vista by double clicking

Jeff — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:22:36 GMT

I tried this and followed all the instructions carefully. Everything appears to work (no errors) but nothing happens (no new hard drive letter.)

So, I'm loading a full vpc install to see if I can access my vhd once it's up and running.

re: How to mount a VHD under Vista by double clicking

win 7 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:31 GMT

trying to do this under windows 7 but it's always giving me an message, something like:

The specified virtual hard disk <snip> is being plugged in using the default Undo Disk option. Use /c to commit or /d to discard the changes to the mounted disk.

Then there was one more line that I couldn't read before the thing cmd window disappeared, but not drives that I could see.

re: How to mount a VHD under Vista by double clicking

Bryan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:32:20 GMT

This is Frustrating!! Using best practices..running as a restricted user..meaning I have to run as everything as administrator with domain admin credentials. You can't mount as a restricted user..so I open command prompt and type my administrator credentials. I added C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\Vhdmount to my paths in system variables.

So I run, vhdmount /m /f WCUeBriefcase.Staging.vhd K As and administrator and I get this message below..and It never mounts!!

The Virtual Hard Disk is successfully plugged in as a virtual disk device. However, not all the volumes on the disk were successfully mounted. Use Disk Manager

to mount the volumes.

My God why can't Microsoft just get it together and make a nice tool like vmware. It's like you have to pull teeth for everything you do. Sorry I had to vent.

If anyone can help me out..much appreciated.

Regards,

Bryan