Managing Disks
Virtual Disk Management Tasks
Detaching VHDs
- A VHD must be detached, or dismounted, to make it unavailable to the operating system and the user. A VHD can be detached using the Disk Management MMC console or the DiskPart command-line utility. This task requires an Administrator-equivalent user account.
- You can detach a VHD if you no longer want to use it by right-clicking the disk entry in the
Graphical view, selecting Detach VHD, and then clicking OK in the Detach Virtual
Hard Disk dialog box.
- When a computer is restarted the VHD files currently attached automatically detach.