Managing Disks
Virtual Disk Management Tasks
Attaching VHDs
- A VHD must be attached, or mounted, to be available to the operating system and the user. This task can be performed using the Disk Management MMC console or the DiskPart command-line utility. This task requires an Administrator-equivalent user account.
- The only time a VHD automatically mounts as the computer starts is the special case where Windows 7 is configured to boot from a VHD file.
- To attach an existing VHD, such as a demo VHD file you download from the Microsoft Download
Center, follow these steps:
- Select Action, Attach VHD. The Attach Virtual Hard Disk dialog box prompts you for the location
of the VHD file.
- Locate the file and highlight it.
- Click Open, and then click OK.