{"id":2014,"date":"2014-02-12T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/02\/12\/powertip-mount-iso-or-vhd-file-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-mount-iso-or-vhd-file-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-mount-iso-or-vhd-file-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Mount ISO or VHD File with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Use Windows PowerShell to mount an ISO or VHD file.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;I can double-click an ISO file to access it in Windows 8.1, but is there a Windows PowerShell <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; cmdlet that will do that for me?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Mount-DiskImage<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the file name:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">For an ISO file:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">MOUNT-DISKIMAGE C:\\ISO\\MYCDFile.ISO<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Or for a VHD file:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">MOUNT-DISKIMAGE C:\\VHD\\VirtualMachine.VHD<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to mount an ISO or VHD file. &nbsp;I can double-click an ISO file to access it in Windows 8.1, but is there a Windows PowerShell &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; cmdlet that will do that for me? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Mount-DiskImage&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the file name: For an ISO file: MOUNT-DISKIMAGE C:\\ISO\\MYCDFile.ISO Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to mount an ISO or VHD file. &nbsp;I can double-click an ISO file to access it in Windows 8.1, but is there a Windows PowerShell &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; cmdlet that will do that for me? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Mount-DiskImage&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the file name: For an ISO file: MOUNT-DISKIMAGE C:\\ISO\\MYCDFile.ISO Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}