{"id":900,"date":"2007-09-12T22:13:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/mounting-virtual-hard-disks-in-windows-vista.htm"},"modified":"2007-09-23T20:24:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T19:24:58","slug":"mounting-virtual-hard-disks-in-windows-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/mounting-virtual-hard-disks-in-windows-vista.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mounting virtual hard disks in Windows Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Virtual PC Guy (Ben Armstrong) wrote a blog post last year about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/virtual_pc_guy\/archive\/2006\/09\/01\/734435.aspx\">using the VHDMount utility from Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 with a few registry edits to enable right-click mounting\/dismounting of virtual hard disk (.VHD) files<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As .VHD files become ever more prevalent, this is a really useful capability (for example, Windows Vista&#8217;s Complete PC Backup functionality writes to a .VHD file).<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is that, as supplied, Ben&#8217;s script does not work on Windows Vista as attempting to run <code>vhdmount.exe<\/code> will return:<\/p>\n<p><em>Access Denied. Administrator permissions are needed to use the selected options. Use an elevated command prompt to complete these tasks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An elevated command prompt is fine for entering commands directly (or by running a script) but what about Ben&#8217;s example of providing shell-integration to mount .VHDs from Explorer?  Thankfully, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweakvista.com\/Article39176.aspx\">Steve Sinchak noted in TweakVista<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/technetmag\/issues\/2007\/06\/utilityspotlight\/\">Michael Murgolo wrote an article about elevating commands within scripts using a free PowerToy called elevate<\/a> which is available from the Microsoft website.  After downloading and extracting <a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/f\/d\/0\/fd05def7-68a1-4f71-8546-25c359cc0842\/Utility2007_06.exe\">the elevate PowerToy scripts<\/a>, I was able to confirm that they would let me run vhdmount.exe using the command <code>elevate vhdmount.exe<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Following that, I edited Ben Armstrong&#8217;s registry file to read:<\/p>\n<p><code>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\Virtual.Machine.HD]<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\Virtual.Machine.HD\\shell]<br \/>\n@=\"Mount\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\Virtual.Machine.HD\\shell\\Dismount]<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\Virtual.Machine.HD\\shell\\Dismount\\command]<br \/>\n@=\"\\\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Script Elevation PowerToys\\\\elevate\\\" \\\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\\\Vhdmount\\\\vhdmount.exe\\\" \/u \/d \\\"%1\\\"\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\Virtual.Machine.HD\\shell\\Mount]<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\Virtual.Machine.HD\\shell\\Mount\\command]<br \/>\n@=\"\\\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Script Elevation PowerToys\\\\elevate\\\" \\\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Microsoft Virtual Server\\\\Vhdmount\\\\vhdmount.exe\\\" \/p \\\"%1\\\"\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.vhd]<br \/>\n@=\"Virtual.Machine.HD\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Note the <code>\/d<\/code> switch in the dismount command.  I had to use this (or <code>\/c<\/code>) to allow the disk to be unmounted and avoid the following message:<\/p>\n<p><em>The specified Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is plugged in using the default Undo Disk option. Use \/c to commit or \/d to discard the changes to the mounted disk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I chose the discard option as most of my .VHDs mounting is simply to extract files but others may prefer to commit.<\/p>\n<p>A few more points to note about VHDMount:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VHDMount is an installable option in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserversystem\/virtualserver\/\">Virtual Server 2005 R2<\/a> SP1 setup program (I installed it together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/prodtechnol\/virtualserver\/2005\/proddocs\/vs_operate_using_VMRC_manageVMs.mspx?mfr=true\">the virtual machine remote control (VMRC) client<\/a> on my Vista client PC as I find the VMRC client to be much more responsive than managing VMs through a web browser).<\/li>\n<li>Earlier versions of VHDMount did not use a signed driver, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsitpro.com\/Article\/ArticleID\/95397\/95397.html\">resulting in an error that says the device driver software was not successfully installed<\/a>.  The release version of the driver is signed.<\/li>\n<li>If you try to expand a virtual hard disk beyond the limits of the physical hardware (e.g. copy a large file to a mounted volume), it will probably hang your system (pretty obvious really but see <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/937366\">Microsoft knowledge base article 937366<\/a> for more details).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/aralves\/archive\/2007\/06\/18\/virtual-server-vhdmount-tracing.aspx\">The VHD_MOUNT_TRACE environment variable can be used for troubleshooting<\/a> issues with VHDMount.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Virtual PC Guy (Ben Armstrong) wrote a blog post last year about using the VHDMount utility from Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 with a few registry edits to enable right-click mounting\/dismounting of virtual hard disk (.VHD) files. 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