{"id":1213,"date":"2009-01-10T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/cesardelatorre\/2009\/01\/10\/attaching-a-vhd-virtual-pc-image-using-windows-7-capabilities\/"},"modified":"2009-01-10T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T06:56:00","slug":"attaching-a-vhd-virtual-pc-image-using-windows-7-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cesardelatorre\/attaching-a-vhd-virtual-pc-image-using-windows-7-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Attaching a .VHD (Virtual PC image) using Windows 7 capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows 7<\/STRONG> has a great and new capability which consists on  the ability to attach a VHD (Virtual PC Hard Disk image) as a  native drive. This way you could see a VHD from Windows 7 like if it were a regular hard drive.<\/P>\n

It is very useful, many times I want to get some demos or any file from within a VPC. In XP or Vista you had to start that VPC using Virtual Pc, etc., now we can just attach it a get any file from the .VHD!! \ud83d\ude42<\/P>\n

The stesp are the following:<\/P>\n

Attach a VHD<\/STRONG><\/P>\n

From ‘Computer management’<\/EM> and Action menu you can attach the VHD:<\/P>\n

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Remember this is just to see the .VHD files.<\/P>\n

BTW, it seems that in Windows 7 build 7000, when you re-start the machine, you no longer have that .VHD as an attached hard drive. I didn’t see a way to persist it, yet..<\/P>\n

If you want to natively BOOT from a .VHD, that is a diferent matter…, I’ll try to post about this other point..<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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