{"id":7061,"date":"2015-03-25T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/03\/25\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-virtual-hard-disks\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:08","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-virtual-hard-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-virtual-hard-disks\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Virtual Hard Disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to find virtual hard disks on your system.<\/span><\/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 notice that my disk space appears to be disappearing at a rapid rate, and I suspect someone is creating <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;virtual hard disks (VHDs) and forgetting about them. How can I use Windows PowerShell to find all the <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;VHDs on my system?<\/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>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;(<b>LS<\/b>,&nbsp;<b>Dir<\/b>,&nbsp;<b>gci<\/b>&nbsp;are aliases), use a filter like&nbsp;<b>*.vhd*<\/b>, and specify the&nbsp;<b>Recurse<\/b>&nbsp;switched <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;parameter. To simply report on the path to the VHDs, select the&nbsp;<b>FullName<\/b>&nbsp;parameter. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Get-ChildItem -Path e: -Filter *.vhd* -Recurse -File | select fullname<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find virtual hard disks on your system. &nbsp;I notice that my disk space appears to be disappearing at a rapid rate, and I suspect someone is creating &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;virtual hard disks (VHDs) and forgetting about them. How can I use Windows PowerShell to find all the [&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":[38,356,3,12,45],"class_list":["post-7061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-files","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-storage","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find virtual hard disks on your system. &nbsp;I notice that my disk space appears to be disappearing at a rapid rate, and I suspect someone is creating &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;virtual hard disks (VHDs) and forgetting about them. How can I use Windows PowerShell to find all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061","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=7061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/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=7061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}